Electoral Votes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Require ... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

Robert A. Dahl

#3. Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#4. The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.

Tom Golisano

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

Dan Rather

#6. 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.

John F. Kerry

#7. 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.

David Letterman

#8. Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Fanny Kemble

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

Roseanne Barr

#10. I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

Ray Bradbury

#11. I hate the word "bitch." I do. Using the B-word makes me feel like a bad feminist, but sometimes there is no other word.

Julie Buxbaum

#12. The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#13. 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

#14. Isn't being in love reward enough without needing a special day as a bonus?

Kim Askew

#15. I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Lady Gaga

#16. The important thing is to go back to wholeness. It's time for human beings to come into a sustainable world.

Chellis Glendinning

#17. 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

#18. When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

Morrissey

#19. My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

Spike Lee

#20. I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money.

Dave Barry

#21. Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.

Lizzo

#22. I just want to be normal, like everybody else."
"Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Lauren Oliver

#23. The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Isaac Newton

#24. Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

Gene Green