Election Interference Quotes

“Russia's plan to subvert American democracy by advertising in our echo chambers could not have succeeded, however, if we had not already done most of the hard work of tearing ourselves apart. Foreign enemies did not convince us to start hating each other; we did that ourselves. We wanted to believe that candidates from the other side were murderers and child abusers and that their supporters despised their own country so much that they didn't care. For the cyberattack to succeed - and by all accounts it succeeded beyond anybody's expectations - we had to be prepared to believe the worst things about each other that a hostile foreign spy could invent.”
― Michael Austin, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition

“It laid out what Russia was doing, noting that while the tactics were new, Russian attempts at election interference were not, and urging Americans to think carefully about all the news and social media they were consuming. While I was researching material for the editorial, I ran across a remarkable quote from George Washington that seemed chillingly prophetic, which began, “against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, that jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”
― Peter Strzok, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

“In the summer of 2017, Putin was vilified by the American media for having interfered in American elections. Such interference is clearly wrong. Yet no American leader asked the obvious question in this 2017 debate: has America interfered in other countries' elections? Dov Levin of the Institute of Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Melon University has compiled a database documenting that it has - more than 80 times between 1946 and 2000.”
― Kishore Mahbubani, Has the West Lost It?: A Provocation