Stephen Hadley Quotes

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

In Vietnam also, the right of self-determination applies even if free elections turn out to be unfavorable.

The United States does not accept foreign meddling in our elections, and we shouldn't have an ambassador attempting to intrude in another country's political affairs.

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

Leave us to our free election.

I am deeply convinced that no interference from the outside, in any country, even a small one, let alone in such a vast and great power as the United States, can influence the final outcome of the elections. It is not possible. Ever.

Elected officials shouldn’t get to choose who gets to choose elected officials.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.

We know for a fact the Russians tried to change the outcome of our election, attacking the very fundamental of democracy. We know they did that. We need to know how, we need to know why, and most of all we need to know what to do to prevent this kind of activity, which they continue to carry on in free nations around the world.

We have two responsibilities when it comes to an election as citizens. We have the responsibility to vote and then to honor that vote, even if we disagree with it. That doesn't mean that we blindly follow. It just means we can't afford the president to fail.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

I think its ridiculous. I mean the voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

[Donald] Trump has said he will accept the results of the election - if he wins. And he has said the only way he can lose the election is if it's stolen from him. Weeks before any votes were cast, he was predicting widespread voter fraud. So if he loses, what does he do?

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

As a United States senator, I've got to do everything that I can to make sure that Trump does not become president.

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.