Quotes About Voters

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

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

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS> LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS> POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS> VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION> PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

The problem was Republicans---the voters, the people. Not just those few thousand in the January 6 rage-driven mob, but the millions who accepted trump's reality free and irrational assertions, who looked to this dissembling power-mad egotist for the truth... His prejudices, his lies, his resentments were theirs. Millions love trump for that. Their fervor was the real threat to the nation.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.