Quotes About Smaller states

Translated into Senate votes, a minority share of the ballots would have yielded a filibuster-proof conservative majority based largely in the South and the Rocky Mountain West. The filibuster itself further increases the power of the smaller and mostly more conservative states: in principle, senators representing roughly 11 percent of the nation's population can produce the 41 votes now required to block action.

the Senate's composition introduced a lasting political bias in American life in favor of smaller states.

He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe.

Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.