Jason Kander Quotes

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Trump is president of the United States. We can't blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.

I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.'

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

After Trump, how can we credibly say that our process for choosing a national leader yields the best possible result, or even someone capable of uniting the country, let alone running it?

It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

The Republicans face a demographic death spiral.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

American politics shows again and again that the best explanation is an accusation.

The American House of Representatives today is a complete travesty upon representative government, upon popular government, and upon government by the majority.

There's only one problem with this year's upcoming Presidential election—one of the candidates has to win.

It has become a cliché that voters no longer choose their legislators. The legislators choose their voters.

Normally we would expect more seats in Congress to go to the political party that receives more votes, but the last election confounded expectations. Democrats received 1.4 million more votes for the House of Representatives, yet Republicans won control of the House by a 234 to 201 margin.