Top 39 Quotes On Electoral Politics
#1. My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Jack Kemp
#2. Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
Bobby Seale
#3. I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden
#4. The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
Baltasar Garzon
#5. The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.
Jean Dreze
#6. Whole fields have disappeared from view: the clergy, the military, electoral politics, teaching, even academia itself, for the most part, including basic science.
William Deresiewicz
#7. I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
Bernadine Dohrn
#8. We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!
Richard Trumka
#9. The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
Marianne Williamson
#10. In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections
Matt Taibbi
#11. The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
Martin O'Malley
#12. I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
Todd Gitlin
#13. appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competition and free choice have little meaning.
Noam Chomsky
#14. There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Paul Wellstone
#15. Oh, dear Hazel." Aphrodite folded her fan. "Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.
Rick Riordan
#17. No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain.
G. Willow Wilson
#19. From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.
Dalai Lama
#21. The more central problem of money in politics is something just as troubling but much harder to see: a system in which economic inequalities, inevitable in a free market economy, are transformed into political inequalities that affect both electoral and legislative outcomes.
Richard L. Hasen
#23. It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.
Mark Helprin
#24. We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
Peter J. Carroll
#25. Beneath their wary smiles, the people were warm and friendly. They had known sorrow and loss, but their spirit survived.
Amanda Grange
#26. If you are anguished with your failures, you despise and accuse those very adversities and held them responsible for your debacle.
Girdhar Joshi
#27. I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
#28. Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information your own scouts provided that mattered, not reports from unknown people whose veracity you couldn't prove.
David Weber
#29. It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others.
John F. Kennedy
#30. When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.
Roger Morris
#31. Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.
Stephen Jay Gould
#32. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
Hugh Sidey
#33. self-deprecatory, to make light of their own situation by
Tom Shroder
#34. I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.
Nick Clegg
#35. 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
#36. And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state.
Michael Chertoff
#37. The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
Al Gore
#39. How could anyone go this far down the rabbit hole without realizing they needed help?
Francesca Zappia
