Barack Obama Quotes

To say that most recent elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that's like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly. That's how silly it is. No. I don't think that's good for our country. The problem is, it does create doubt in people's minds. And I worry about 25% of Americans who may say when an election is over, it was stolen.

Nobody in the American political establishment is happy about Mr. Trump’s wild-eyed accusations of voter fraud and media conspiracies because they understand that it undermines their own credibility as leaders in a democracy. This is exactly why my country’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, is so delighted by Mr. Trump’s charges.as

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.

Democracy is the art of cheerfully pulling the wool over the eyes of the people, and doing so in their name.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

I know some of you people, "Well, Rush, what do you mean Donald Trump won by 2.8? You can't throw out New York and California." Well, they are. They are. When they say the Russians hacked the election, which didn't happen, by the way.

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.

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

A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying citizen, whose rights to a fair election shouldn’t be tampered with. Winning an election is important, but winning it honestly is imperative in a Constitutional Republic.

Foreign meddling elections is bad whether it's done by the Russians here or by us or anyplace else.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

I was honored to serve as an elected official for twenty-four years of my life. But right now, I believe our democratic processes have been hacked. They are not serving the best interests of the American public.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.

Since Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, why are they complaining about the Russians hacking the election? I mean, Hillary wins the popular vote, what more can a hacker do than get you the majority of the popular vote? But yet they're running around complaining about the hackers and they're blaming the Russians for stealing the election.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.

If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.