Quotes About Redistricting

#1. If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

John Podesta

#2. Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

John Engler

#4. Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.

Mike Ross

#5. Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

Thomas E. Mann

#6. We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

Grover Norquist

#7. So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

Howard Dean

#8. In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Thomas E. Mann

#9. It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.

Eleanor Smeal

#10. No matter what people say about me, I'll still do things according to my style.

Kim Hyun-joong

#11. A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

Sol Wachtler

#12. Aurora is right, Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.

Amanda Hocking

#13. I got him," I said unapologetically, bending to lift Nicholas into my arms.
Jase must have detected the tone in my voice when he responded, "He's all yours, buddy. I was just holding your place until you got here.

A.M. Madden

#14. Bright Lifeparticles are energizing my body.

Ilchi Lee

#15. For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

Ryan Reynolds

#16. Like more tired than usual. Hard and crumbling at the edges.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

Gabriel Byrne

#18. I treat everyone just like I would myself. If you treat me right, I'll treat you right.

Charles Manson

#19. In a sense the debate between Penrose and Hawking is a continuation of that earlier argument, with Penrose playing the role of Einstein and Hawking that of Bohr.

Stephen Hawking