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"Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems ."
"You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections."
"I never spoke about politics, with the exception of Election Night."
"James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he express any interest, concern, about what the Russians did, how they did it, how do we prevent it. He continuously has in fact denigrated the whole idea and dismissed that it was the Russians, and apparently hasn't yet accepted the 100-percent consensus of everybody that knows about this that this was a conscious and deliberate effort on their part to attack our democracy."
"If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election."
"I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself."
"I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing."
"Leave us to our free election."
"Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last."
"Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate."
"If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything."
"Political elections are not life and death."
"It's a very broad and not very well-disguised effort of Russians to create questions about the legitimacy of these Western elections. And, I think, this is very K.G.B."
"The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control."
"It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration."
"If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit."
"I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down."
"The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day."
"We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous."
"The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy."
