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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national currency.
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.
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.
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
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.
You can't just chant 'Putin, go away!' because it doesn't make any sense at this point. We need to chant: 'Putin, give back our votes!'
I think I would make a much better president than Ted Cruz, and with a little luck maybe I'll get more votes, but I'm not counting on it.
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.
The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.
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.
I am a voter. I have one vote, yet you're a superdelegate and count for thousands and thousands of votes. That doesn't make any sense at all.
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 NRA grades senators and representatives based on their votes on gun issues - and even on issues that have little-to-nothing to do with guns.
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.
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.
Taking care of a border security is one of the issues that government has to manage. It is not to be politicised to win votes and gain sympathy.
Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.
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.
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.
Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?
Appeal for votes should not be made on basis of caste, creed, or communal. In a healthy democracy, this is not expected from any political leader.
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.
I've been pushing for the longest time that you get the votes easier and with more enthusiasm when people feel like you're addressing their concerns.
I feel the Conservatives are doing really well both in attracting votes from British Indians and also having successful British Indians in the party.
If I'm fortunate enough to get the nomination of the Constitution Party, I will take as many votes from Obama as I would from the Republican nominee.
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.
Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught.
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.
I think if Hillary Clinton had come on 'Fox & Friends,' she would have gotten so many more votes, especially if she had done it over and over and over.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.
The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.
We have people who will take votes that they can't defend. They'll say they stand for a policy, but when it comes to vote for it, they won't take the vote.
We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.
Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart.
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.
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.
The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.
The dominant advertising advantage of Clinton, with spending of 10 to 1 over Trump, reinforced the perception that she was trying to buy, rather than earn, votes.
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 will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.