Quotes About Votes

This is the extreme left's problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don't listen to and understand Americans, you'll pay the price at the ballot box.

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

The 2009 elections were the first my party faced. Still MNS candidates lost by lesser margins. Each of my candidate got more than one lakh votes.

I moved to the SP. I worked for them for 10 years. But they don't have any ideology. They work only for Muslim votes because that's how they feel they will win.

To prevent division of Hindu votes, Balasaheb decided that Shiv Sena will take care of Maharashtra and BJP can take care of whole country. But things have changed now.

If I contest elections in a federation, I will not get even four votes. It's all politics and money.

Each and every one of my votes here in D.C. has been in the interest of saving lives.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

Do not waste your vote by voting for other parties - they will not form the government - as it will only split the votes, but vote for AIADMK which is going to be part of the Central government.

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.

When the votes of justices in controversial cases can be predicted at the outset, constitutional law simply becomes partisan politics by another name.

Jack, however, was persuaded by an aide to telephone King's wife, Coretta, to express his sympathy. At the same time, Bobby (unbeknownst to Jack) telegraphed the judge and requested King's release. The judge relented, and King got out of prison on bail. King then gave Jack full credit for what had happened. King Sr. came around, announcing, "I've got a suitcase full of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap.

They were stealin' votes in east Texas," Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, "we were stealin' votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it." But Jesus wasn't counting, and, by an eighty-seven-vote margin, "Landslide Lyndon" attained the Senate seat he had coveted for so long.

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

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices and votes to push back.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.