“American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.” WayShouldGovernmentLastsRememberPoliticsPoliticianVoteDollarsCongressInvisibleBudgetsExpensesVotersBottlesFederal GovernmentAlcoholicsTaxpayersWhiskeySurplusCupboardsAmerican Voters Author:Ron Paul
“I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.” WantYearsBelieveDonePoliticsWinningRepublicanElectionSavedHonestlyVotersOctoberElection Years Author:Will Rogers
“What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.” IfsCarePoliticalPurposePoliticsLeaderMajorityPrimariesVotersParkingPolitical LeadersParking Lot Author:Newt Gingrich
“Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.” DifferentPoliticsPoliticianPromiseElectionFakeVotersPhonyFalse Promises Author:Jay Leno
“Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.” WorldWayBelieveCountryProblemFoundPoliticsLostSoundLinesAudienceIssuesNewsSolutionsArgumentComplexesNotionCandidatesHelpfulVotersBitesAdsEfficientSlogansAssemblyAssertionFreezeIdentificationVisceralSound BitesAssembly LineComplex Problems Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson
“... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.” KnowsWayIdeasPoliticsInterestCommunityPartyTheoryPromiseSilentVotersFrustratingOld Ideas Author:Robert Musil
“Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.” PoliticsPoliticianLocalsBunchVotersTreasuryBandits Author:Will Rogers
“I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.” ThinkingNeedsPoliticsMereVotersExtensionsBallotsPanacea Author:Frances Harper
“First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.” FirstsCarePoliticalPoliticsPartyComplainingVotersApathySwings Author:Gail Collins
“If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.” IfsPoliticalPoliticsTermOfficeUnderstoodVoteVotersTerm Limits Author:Robert Byrd
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” InspirationalPoliticsDemocracySecurityIgnoranceVotingVotersMiscellaneousEternal VigilanceVoting And Democracy Author:John F. Kennedy