Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water they were passed to get votes.
Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.
If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority you can have it.
I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.
When someone is running for reelection in Texas they're not looking for votes in California or New York.
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
There are always two figures in a marriage two votes two conflicting sets of decisions desires and limitations.
Remember politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more And be happy.
To finalize the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people not to fabricate votes.
The political satirist usually votes against their own interests but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
Texas: 32 electoral votes another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.
We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation.
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is not money but votes.
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes they should be arrested for wasting money
I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.
Incumbents are safe but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
If I move one way I lose a couple votes. If I move another way I lose a couple votes.
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted and the Electoral College is removed.
There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.
The only poll obviously that matters is the last one the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.
I am the president of the United States of America clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!
Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
As a legislator I saw how effective I could be by being transparent posting and explaining all of my votes.
There`s that issue of if you attack someone you don`t know where the votes are going to go.
Democracy is only an experiment in government and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however as Christ followers our votes should reflect our God.
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
I said last year and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation.
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over and our votes have been counted.
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil whether he knows it or not.
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]
A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump but when it comes to policies and votes he boogies with the Golden Calf.
There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia Ohio.
We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say We've had enough we are going to take over.
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first by casting better votes.
We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000 Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.
For many celebrities securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
Slavery is but half abolished emancipation is but half completed while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
At the end of the day money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.
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.
One with God is always a majority but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
In the Senate where 60 votes are required to do anything important you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
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.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
General Wesley Clark commented on Gore endorsing Howard Dean. He said endorsements don't win elections. Hey in this country votes don't even win elections.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from the Electoral College is all 'don't ask don't care' when it comes to votes.
The centralization of power in Washington which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes steadily increases.
The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.
No matter what your decisions are no matter what your votes are if you're not playing by the rules you're taking a big risk.
No matter what your decisions are no matter what your votes are if youre not playing by the rules youre taking a big risk.
Because Washington state now votes by mail elections here tend to play out at an agonizingly slow speed over many days and sometimes weeks.
Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan Pennsylvania Wisconsin - about 112 000 votes separated the two candidates as well.
I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government economic freedom and individual liberty.
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.
I've always believed that who a reporter votes for what religion they are who they love should not be something they have to discuss publicly
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.
History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.
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.
When you have the most votes of anybody that tells you where the party is. I think the party got lost to a certain extent.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast the president was really Al Gore.
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well as nearly as I can learn we did not have enough votes on our side
I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it direct it produce it the audience votes and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
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.
American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes not beating up on Republicans in the House.
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.
Here's the biggest problem I think Donald Trump has. He's not getting enough votes today of the people who already say they don't like Hillary Clinton.
The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts "God save the Queen"; when she loses she votes down the prime minister.
Hillary Clinton [Democrats] say leads the popular vote by two million and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.
[Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans you're going to see investigations subpoenas.
I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.
You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average but the way you get votes is you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.
There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
The people in Florida think that Marco Rubio's literally defrauded them because you look at what he does. He never goes and votes. He's never over there.
Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.
New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.
Historically the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove and experience confirms it that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
[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.
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
Hillary Clinton`s popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes but get this [Donald] Trump`s percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent.
Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes and how.
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
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.
Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton Florida 2000 and the recall in California I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election-except get the most votes.
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win.
St. Peter on my judgment day will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life...
They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians because that's what it is. They've controlled these communities for up to 100 years.
The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.
Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.
Marvel Comics announced that the next Captain America will be black. He has the same powers as white Captain America except he has to show I.D. when he votes.
No I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector Democrats will lose black votes.
What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court on the other hand did not want all the votes to be counted.
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)
Between floor votes hearings and meetings a typical week in Washington is about 70 hours. And back in the district it's about 60 hours a lot of which is spent with constituents.
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.
Voting the names of the dead and the nonexistent and the too-mentally-impaired to function cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.
I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.
Every politician every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh maternal instincts that government ought to reflect...
In the past the great majority of minority voters in Ohio and other places that means African American voters cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.
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.
So our problem is not Labour it is us is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.
In votes cast Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of Hispanic elected officials has not risen so fast.
The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements.
We vote - if the public votes 50 percent we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party our policies and our nation.
If we want to truly regain the public's trust we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.
Donald Trump wasn't vying for the popular vote. He was vying for the Electoral College as was Hillary Clinton. The only difference is he got over 300 electoral votes and she did not.
If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head there would be a brighter future for us all.
I`m running for president because I want to change the direction of this country and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S.
It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.
The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.
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.
I think I respect everyone votes and everyone must respect my votes. My vote bdo in 2015 was for [Lionel] Messi because for me he had an amazing season and he deserved to win.
If someone down-votes you or you don't get a like or someone says something not cool you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party not even APC
Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.
The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes) hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that
Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
Votes are like trees if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
Votes are something that you earn.
Votes should be weighed not counted.
I remember as a child going around with "Votes For Women" balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause.
Let's not be overconfident we still have to count the votes.
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election the people who count the votes do.
The forgotten man... He works he votes generally he prays but his chief business in life is to pay.
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey there are votes in this!
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
The politician in my country seeks votes affection and respect in that order. With few notable exceptions they are simply men who want to be loved.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
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.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is I think the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Whether we or our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Disunity costs votes.
No-one ever votes Tory do they?
Only votes talk everything else walks.
Texas has a lot of electrical votes.
I always get more applause than votes.
Most often the electorate votes for change.
the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.
I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected.
The most important thing is who counts the votes.
I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.
We don't go to war on narrow partisan votes.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
In politics familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds
I love religion but I don't need it for votes.
I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.
Animal rights taken to their logical conclusion mean votes for oysters.
If you double count some votes that makes other votes disenfranchised.
I was two votes away from class clown in high school.
I've gotten more than two million votes more than anybody else.
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes
The American future is here and there's great news: the future votes.
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
It is not the voters who count but those who count the votes.
There is a century-old saying "The dollar votes more times than the man.
From casting to counting our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100 000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.
There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.
He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.
When you're looking for votes you are looking for votes from everybody particularly the powerful.
As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
The popular choice by more than 2 million votes is a completely qualified candidate for president.
This may be news to Big Money politicians but they actually don't own our votes.
Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes.
Indeed truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.
A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us.
I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.
Libertarians should say 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican'
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats And ask no questions but the price of votes.
Kind of paradoxically men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.