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The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not. — Billy Sunday

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

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes. — Phil Bredesen

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. — Tommy Douglas

Who votes for these uninspiring gorgons? — Rupert Dreyfus

People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes. — Joseph Stalin

Votes, this essayist insisted, not signatures, were the correct way to express the public will - a — Marla R. Miller

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. — Joseph Stalin

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. — Jesse Helms

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money. — Lamar Alexander

It is not the voters who count, but those who count the votes. — Joseph Stalin

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power. — Joseph Stalin

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

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. — Edward R. Murrow

He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast. — John Grisham

Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes. — Will Rogers

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. — Robert Zoellick

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

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me. — Jesse Jackson

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio. — John F. Kennedy

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame. — Al Barlick

Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican' — Dennis Prager

There is a century-old saying, The dollar votes more times than the man. — Michael Parenti

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues. — P. Chidambaram

Americans have never admitted that guns may serve a moral purpose as well as votes. — T.R. Fehrenbach

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country. — Alphonso Jackson

I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother. — Erin Passons

Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf. — Don Feder

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

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. — Roseanne Barr

I love religion but I don't need it for votes. — Arvind Kejriwal

I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes! — Abraham Lincoln

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth. — Jonathan Haidt

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq. — Ahmed Chalabi

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes. — Frank Zappa

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media. — Kevin Drum

Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God. — Monica Johnson

The most important thing is who counts the votes. — Mikhail Gorbachev

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. — James Callaghan

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people. — Charles Kennedy

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes. — Arlen Specter

Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays - but he always pays - yes, above all, he pays. — William Graham Sumner

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. — John Podhoretz

This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote. — Vicky Hartzler

Our Minister for Water-closets won't keep two and a half million men in any base in order to get the votes of their women — Ford Madox Ford

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

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

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

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. — Reginald Rose

Texas has a lot of electrical votes. — Yogi Berra

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. — Nicola Sturgeon

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress. — Thomas E. Mann

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians. — Milton Friedman

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. — Will Rogers

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world. — Greg Gutfeld

Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule. — Raheel Farooq

Politicians often say to me, 'Articles in the 'Observer' don't get me votes, but you get me money.' — Jared Kushner

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. — Jackie Kennedy

The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. — William Graham Sumner

If a fish votes for the fisherman, he votes for its own ruin! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I said last year, and I still believe there are the votes in the House to pass Death with Dignity legislation. — Shap Smith

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. — Will Rogers

I court not the votes of the fickle mob. — Horace

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

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States. — Jennifer Granholm

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other. — Stanislaw Lem

The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches. — Robert Mundell

Need more votes! — Frankie

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. — Oscar Ameringer

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! — Barack Obama

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems. — Mimi Kennedy

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it. — Calvin Coolidge

The votes of a hundred or a thousand blockheads set the course for the enlightened. — Anonymous

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. — Ilana Mercer

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes. — Harold Washington

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. — Kenneth Blackwell

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. — Ron Paul

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour. — Julie Burchill

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. — Ziggy Marley

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. — John Ridley

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 ... — Bob Dornan

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. — Julian Bond

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast. — Mario Diaz-Balart

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. — Robert Torricelli

Votes should be weighed not counted. — Friedrich Schiller

Only votes talk, everything else walks. — Dan Rather

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks. — Jonathan Raban

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised. — John Ensign

We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation. — Charles Kennedy

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. — Thomas Sowell

Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon. — Hannah Arendt

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

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

I wonder why men always talk about politics?" Mary speculated. "I suppose, if we had votes, we should, too." "I — Virginia Woolf

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco. — Dan Rather

There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes. — Jim Nussle

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. — Robert Charles Winthrop

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. — Hunter S. Thompson