Hillary Clinton Quotes

We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.

No election is a single issue election.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

Don't make election popularity largely a matter of which candidate hires the most creative and effective propagandists. Insist that it be, instead, a running conversation with the public.

I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.

We know that greater participation in our democracy will make our government more responsible and make elected officials more representative of the people we serve. Making that participation easier while improving the integrity and security of our elections is something we should all be able to support.

The only thing about politics I do discuss is, be into them: Read what's online. Read what the candidates are talking about. Try to understand why people are fighting over what the candidates are standing for.

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

The tin man vs. the straw man. The candidate with a brain but without a heart against the president with a heart but without a brain. That's how many Latin Americans are viewing the race between John Kerry and George W. Bush.

Between 2012 and 2016, Donald Trump earned 14,000 more votes than Mitt Romney did in Detroit. It was wonderful to have a candidate in our party come to Detroit and campaign and actually show up and invest time there even though he probably didn't think he was going to win Detroit.