Quotes About Public

If you were unfamiliar with the political situation in our country, you might think you were witnessing not the machinations of a democracy but the final surrender of personal consciousness into the public domain.

Trump showed you can get elected by voters who think very poorly of you.

I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.

I always get more applause than votes.

I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

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.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

Voters should know what their representative is doing, what votes he casts, and who he pays, so my office will make this data readily available in a way which is easy to understand.

Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to... What else? Buy votes.

On Islam, it is true that I am tough. Perhaps tougher than I should be if my only aim was to get votes.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Republican who votes to significantly increase taxes for certain segments of the general public.

The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector.

In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Voting for a politician is very different then saying you like somebody or don't like somebody.