#votes

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#bring #impact #manpower #numbers #organization

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#amorphous #ask #being #bill #bill clinton

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. ↗

— Dean Inge

#democracy #disadvantage #experiment #government #instead

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#continually #debate #filibuster #issue #just

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#direct #every #every night #go #go home

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#corruption #currency #elective #elective office #fail

I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

#getting #i #re-elected #taking #votes

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. ↗