Political Rejection Quotes

Iturbide became a non-person in Mexico. His body was not removed to the great Independence Monument erected in 1925 with those of Hidalgo, Morelos, Matamoros, and Guerrero – all of whom had so signally failed to secure Mexico’s independence. The man who actually gave Mexico nationhood remains despised and obscure.

In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon's arrogant, isolated presidency. But as alert history-minded readers know, Ford and Carter were both rebuffed by voters in their efforts to hold on to the presidency.

You have the charisma of a damp rag, and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, [...] that we're all going to ask, is "Who are you ?". I'd never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, President, who voted for you, and what mechanism… Sir, you have no legitimacy in this job at all, and I can say with confidence that I speak on behalf of the majority of British people in saying: we don't know you, we don't want you, and the sooner you're put out to grass, the better

America doesn't exist in decline! America never has existed in decline, and people do not want to be told that the country that they live in now is in decline and to live it, learn it, and love it. And so they rejected it. So Van Jones goes out and he understands it's not racism - at least he says he understands. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. He says he understands. He hears... He listens to Trump's speech and he finally sees how other people are hearing it.

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Prime Minister, our party won’t have you, and I think I am right in saying that the country won’t have you either.

The Whigs have cast me off, and they shall repent it.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

Roosevelt knew never to lose control of the majority of American opinion, unlike his greatest democratic contemporaries, Churchill and De Gaulle, who at times suffered spectacular rejections by their electorates.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

Politics was never in our blood and in our family... I will never return to it.

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.

My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

The Democrats can't come to grips with the fact that they have been not just defeated, they've been rejected, what they stand for and what they did. And their fingerprints alone with on these things: Obamacare, that stimulus. That's why this is a very risky thing for Donald Trump, this stimulus that he wants to do, but we'll get into that just a second here.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed

A big win for [Hillary] Clinton would allow her to claim that the country rejected Trumpism, while a narrow win leaves her limping into office with the highest unfavorable ratings for any new president.

To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.'

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

I favor anti-politics politics.

The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

What could you expect with a man who had snubbed seventy senators?