Electorally Quotes

#1. Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Tony Blair

#2. The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Roy Jenkins

#3. Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

Aaron Klein

#4. Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

Monica Crowley

#5. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Nick Hanauer

#6. In all spiritualities there is a contrast between the affective or13 devotional (bhakti) and the intellectual, anoetic type of experience (raja yoga).

Thomas Merton

#7. Watch out for your ambitions: they may play on your values

S.E. Sever

#8. I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Edward Abbey

#9. This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

Daniel Quinn

#10. WHAT IN THE WORLD, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue? demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the Evening Banner with the air of a man released from an irksome duty.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#11. I am a big fan of the night shoots, as tough as they are, because they have almost a camping trip feel.

Drew Roy

#12. I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#13. Later, a passenger reported seeing a woman giving birth in the water. The idea that this might have been his mother would haunt the boy for the rest of his life.

Erik Larson