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Quotes About Votes

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
There is going to be a major black exit from the Democrat Party, and they are going to actually have to actually compete for their votes in 2020.
~ Candace Owens
My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.
~ Aasif Mandvi
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
~ Jennifer Granholm
Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.
~ Alexis Ohanian
I know the divisions in our nation that led some to extreme votes. I respect them.
~ Emmanuel Macron
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
~ Anthony Weiner
I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
~ Pat Buchanan
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
~ James K. Polk
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
~ Gordon Smith
And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.
~ Alphonso Jackson
The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.
~ James L. Buckley
January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
~ John T. Flynn
If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.
~ Chuck Grassley
Flooding the mails with ballots is an invitation for voter fraud and chaos on Election Day. There is a danger of votes being lost, tampered with and, frankly, not counted by overwhelmed election officials.
~ Tom Fitton
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
~ Ralph Nader
Disunity costs votes.
~ John Major
Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
~ David Herbert Donald
The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.
~ Steve Chabot
I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.
~ Robert Torricelli
I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.
~ Pia Toscano
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
~ Lincoln Diaz-Balart