“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“‘I think Hillary will fuck up the country more. [Trump's] not a person of politics, he’s a guy like us. He’s a sexist, he might be a little be crazy and compulsive. But you know what? I’m like that. And I honestly see a lot of similarities.”— Jon, thetab.com
“Half of America is thinking to themselves: 'I'm a decent, hardworking American, scared for the future because manufacturing jobs are going away, my community is disintegrating, and the people in power don't care about me. Why do these liberal crybabies think I'm some racist hick?' The other half is…”— Ben Tolkin, facebook.com
“The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”— Salena Zito, theatlantic.com
“Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came…”— Michael Moore, facebook.com
“You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow…”— Michael Moore, facebook.com
“Hillary Clinton will not be our country’s first female president. But she absorbed some of the worst humanity had to offer—decades of public shaming, sexual humiliation, and death threats, all endorsed by a variety of mainstream politicians.”— Christina Cauterucci, slate.com
“This work is bigger than any presidency and progress does not move in a straight line. The most important opportunities of Max's generation -- like curing all disease, improving education, connecting everyone and promoting equal opportunity -- will take long term focus and finding new ways for all o…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“How many 'media elites' can honestly say they know Trump voters personally?”— Brian Stelter, us11.campaign-archive2.com
“America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours.”— Aaron Sorkin, vanityfair.com
“You cannot polarize and proselytize at the same time. You have to give people room to be wrong without demonizing them. If they are ‘wrong’ about something and the people who are wrong about that something are ‘evil’, they will never be open to being wrong because no one considers themselves to be e…”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“One of the things I’ve tried to make clear over the 18 months I’ve been talking about Trump is how I’ve been wrong about him at every turn. When he first came down the escalator at Trump Tower and announced he wanted to run, I boldly said on this show it was a stunt, and he would never really run. I…”— Seth Meyers, youtube.com
“Hate was given hope. Abject dumbness was glamorized as being ‘the fresh voice of an outsider’ who’s going to ‘shake things up.’”— Aaron Sorkin, vanityfair.com
“To the degree that Donald Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him…”— Bernie Sanders, facebook.com
“You have to stay encouraged. Don’t get cynical. Don’t ever think you can’t make a difference.”— Barack Obama, twitter.com
“But Donald Trump is entering an office that is weaker than many realize. For all the same reasons Barack Obama could not bring about the change he had made people believe in, Trump cannot wrench America to his vision of greatness. He is constrained by the House and the Senate, by the Supreme Court,…”— Ezra Klein, vox.com
“I want to tell the world community that while we will always put America's interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone, with everyone. All people and all other nations. We will seek common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict.”— Donald Trump, cnn.com
“Our campaign was never about one person, or even one election. It was about the country we love and building an America that is hopeful, inclusive, and big-hearted. We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America, and I always will. And if you do,…”— Hillary Clinton, facebook.com