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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. -- Dan Quayle
Votes are something that you earn. -- Tom Brokaw
Votes should be weighed not counted. -- Friedrich Schiller
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. -- Thomas E. Mann
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. -- Katharine Hepburn
Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes. -- Harold Washington
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. -- Joseph Stalin
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. -- William Graham Sumner
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. -- Malcolm de Chazal
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. -- Justin Amash
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! -- Theresa May
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 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
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. -- Joseph Stalin
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. -- James L. Buckley
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. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
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. -- Wendell Berry
When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around. -- Dick Cheney
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them. -- George Ayittey
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia. -- Adam McKay
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Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. -- Robert Mugabe
Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will. -- Richard Mourdock
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations. -- J. C. Watts
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about. -- Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes. -- Paul Mooney
We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short. -- Valerie Jarrett
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. -- Juan Williams
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' -- Noam Chomsky
Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things. -- Jo Brand
Disunity costs votes. -- John Major
No-one ever votes Tory, do they? -- Ian Brown
Only votes talk, everything else walks. -- Dan Rather
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. -- Yogi Berra
I always get more applause than votes. -- Norman Thomas
Most often the electorate votes for change. -- David Sirota
the Republicans are all about suppressing votes. -- Howard Dean
I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected. -- Jaime Herrera Beutler
The most important thing is who counts the votes. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I have nothing to do with counting the votes. -- Ken Blackwell
Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes. -- Will Rogers
I have nothing to do with counting the votes. -- Ken Blackwell
Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes. -- Van Jones
We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes. -- Phil Bredesen
I court not the votes of the fickle mob. -- Horace
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. -- Paul Lazarsfeld
Elections aren't just about who votes, but who doesn't vote. -- Michelle Obama
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds -- Charles I of England
I love religion but I don't need it for votes. -- Arvind Kejriwal
I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me. -- Jesse Jackson
Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes -- Thomas Sowell
I don't expect people to agree with all my votes. -- Arlen Specter
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. -- Bertrand Russell
If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised. -- John Ensign
I was two votes away from class clown in high school. -- Ed Gordon
I've gotten more than two million votes more than anybody else. -- Donald Trump
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes -- Robert A. Dahl
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes -- Benito Mussolini
The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes. -- Rosario Dawson
Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq. -- Ahmed Chalabi
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. -- Robert A. Dahl
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. -- Harry Hay
Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time. -- Paul Weyrich
It is not the voters who count, but those who count the votes. -- Joseph Stalin
There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man. -- Michael Parenti
From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems. -- Mimi Kennedy
Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving. -- Pat Robertson
Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes. -- Ilana Mercer
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. -- John Podhoretz
There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket. -- Will Rogers
I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination. -- Julianne Malveaux
There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes. -- Jim Nussle
He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power. -- Joseph Stalin
The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
When you're looking for votes, you are looking for votes from everybody, particularly the powerful. -- Peter Costello
The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? -- Boss Tweed
The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president. -- Lawrence Lessig
This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes. -- Jill Stein
It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes. -- Joseph Stalin
Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes. -- Barack Obama
Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media. -- Kevin Drum
A customer votes everyday with his dollar. Our job is make sure he votes for us. -- Henry Ford
I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. -- James Callaghan
Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican' -- Dennis Prager
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. -- Samuel Johnson
Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women. -- Christian Rudder
Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes. -- Frank Zappa
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues. -- P. Chidambaram
Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes. -- Jill Stein
If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it. -- Calvin Coolidge
I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. -- Ziggy Marley
I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes. -- Chuck Todd
When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York. -- Ezra G. Levin
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes. -- Joseph Stalin
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. -- Ron Paul
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. -- Hunter S. Thompson
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home. -- Mike Pence
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. -- Hafez
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes. -- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. -- Lizz Winstead
Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco. -- Dan Rather
We have a Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales, both elected by fairer votes - involving proportional representation. -- Charles Kennedy
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. -- James L. Buckley
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money. -- Lamar Alexander
This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote. -- Vicky Hartzler
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money -- Lamar Alexander
I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems. -- Narendra Modi
Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican. -- David Swanson
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress. -- Thomas E. Mann
If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes. -- Chuck Grassley
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people. -- Ralph Nader
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed. -- Roseanne Barr
There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions. -- Donald Trump
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 am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes! -- Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame. -- Al Barlick

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