2012 Presidential Election Quotes

#1. Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Timothy Noah

#2. That's how life is; we grow, we learn, and sometimes we change. And in every man, there is hope.

Kathryn Le Veque

#3. No fear can keep this love away. Never give up that hope it's not so far away.

Emel Oner

#4. Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

Joan Jett

#5. Most organisations have a serial bully. It never ceases to amaze me how one person's divisive dysfunctional behaviour can permeate the entire organisation like a cancer.

Tim Field

#6. While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

Bob Menendez

#7. Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.

Elaine Ostrach Chaika

#8. Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

Muhammad Yunus

#9. Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

James Taranto

#10. For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Glenn Greenwald

#11. It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

Roy Harper

#12. The poor homosexuals
they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

Pat Buchanan

#13. The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs ...

Harriet Martineau

#14. The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Steven Rattner

#15. Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years?

Donna Leon

#16. He's a morning man. And a night man. And an everything-in-between man

Georgia Cates

#17. The answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

#18. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

George Packer

#19. I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal." It's like, if a woman is agitated one day, people go, "Oh, she's on her period." That's such garbage. I think I was dealing with a combination of my own inner demons and resentment toward my parents from my earlier days.

Katy Rose