Quotes About Votes

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

Faste is an idiot." "No, Jan, he isn't. He's just …" "What?" "Conservative. He's not someone who falls for the latest feminist fads." "Or for the earliest ones either. He may have just got his head around all that stuff about votes for women.

Let's continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) will bring us not only 79 votes, but more than 79 (votes).

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

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept. And Barack Obama didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me.

I'm an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We're looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

You have to go through life with more than just passion for change; you need a strategy. I'll repeat that. I want you to have passion, but you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness, but action. Not just hashtags, but votes. You see, change requires more than righteous anger.

Elections are supposed to be political occasions. In fact the opposite is true. The last thing politicians want to talk about at election-time is politics. What they want to talk about is votes. And the less you talk about politics, the more votes you're likely to win - otherwise you might offend someone.

Cross felt that at the heart of all political movements the concept of the basic inequality of man was enthroned and practiced, and the skill of politicians consisted in how cleverly they hid this elementary truth and gained votes by pretending the contrary

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.