#politic

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#ballot #community #elections #first #give

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#memory #nothing #politics #short #short memory

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#arena #driver #governor #i #immigrants

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#blocs #exclusive #growing #inclusive #melting

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#out #politics #seen #sometimes #think

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#cast #count #decide #election #enough

President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency.The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#barack obama #calls #economy #four #inherited

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#absolutely not #cannot #catch #collect #commander-in-chief

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#came #german #i #know #number