The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
Appeal for votes should not be made on basis of caste, creed, or communal. In a healthy democracy, this is not expected from any political leader.
If we really mean that people's votes are to be counted, the timelines ought to exist around what it takes to count every vote.
I have a clean image. I want to serve the people with humility and sincerity. Politicians have made use of peoples' votes but do not care for them.
Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
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.
I got 220,000 votes from people who also voted for Donald Trump. I did not do that by pretending to be a conservative Democrat.
I will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.
The Democratic Party has failed us, because we haven't run the progressive platform we've been promised... That's why people have moved their votes to the Republicans.
I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.
When controversy calls, corporations can be far more responsive than politicians. The market votes every day, after all.
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
Many in the Somali community are excited to vote and support candidates who have shown an ability to lead with integrity and not use props and gatekeepers to get their votes.
I hope the EPA will listen to the many votes over the years in Congress opposing cap-and-trade and rescind that proposed rule.
Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?
In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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.
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.
I became the prime minister of Pakistan through votes, whereas five honourable judges sent me home.
Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
Alliance is not to show individual strength, but win over the opposition by pooling in all the votes of like-minded parties and ensuring that they are not scattered.
Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Shiv Sena is interested only in Marathi votes and not the Marathi manoos.
If I'm fortunate enough to get the nomination of the Constitution Party, I will take as many votes from Obama as I would from the Republican nominee.
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
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.
I've been pushing for the longest time that you get the votes easier and with more enthusiasm when people feel like you're addressing their concerns.
We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.
Chet Edwards votes for every bailout and against ending any bailout!
I do know that I don't want to see anybody legitimately have the excuse that they are not voting because their votes don't count. That can't happen - whether I'm the one impacted by that vote or not.
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.
You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
The G.O.P. needs to fight for women votes because it believes our policies are better for women.
For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.
The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.
There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.
I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.
I`m running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S.
I think I would make a much better president than Ted Cruz, and with a little luck maybe I'll get more votes, but I'm not counting on it.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.
Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.
Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.
Here's the biggest problem I think Donald Trump has. He's not getting enough votes today of the people who already say they don't like Hillary Clinton.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.
Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national currency.
I was Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000, when he won a half-million more votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency.
American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.
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