Arun Jaitley Quotes

Candidates talk about issues that voters want to hear about.

The general assumption of the democratic process is that you identify candidates who come closest to you in terms of values and positions. The problem is many voters are never given the kind of information they need to make the decision.

Voters deserve - and they indeed expect - a good debate on the issues.

The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

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

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test of reaction time rather than a genuine exposition of the participants' philosophies and programs

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

In something as important as an election, a little name-calling sometimes breaks out.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

I believe in party sponsorship. I believe in Party government as distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not. In a citizenship of more than 100 million it is impossible to reach an agreement upon all the questions. Parties are formed by those who reach a consensus of opinion.

I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future.

I talk to a lot of those voters who say, 'Just give us another choice.'

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.

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

It is in the interest of Americans to find out what those wanting to be president think about a wide range of challenges and what they might do about them. We should want to get their take on the wisdom of past decisions, what they agree and disagree with, and why.

Brexit has given us the start of a conversation with people who perhaps haven't traditionally voted Conservative.

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 have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.

What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don't care. I've always urged people to make sure you vote for the right guy.

There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.