“Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldGivenPrinciplesCitizensEqualVoteStructure Author:Lawrence Lessig
“If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.” PeopleIfsNeedsMeanTwoStatesWould BeTodayPresidentIssuesFocusNew YorkVoteCampaignsCaliforniaRelevantPopular Vote Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Let's pretend six people live in your house. And you propose that only four people get to eat every day, and you put it to a vote. If four people vote that only four people get to eat, two people don't, that prevails. That's what a democracy is. It's strictly majority-minority rule.” PeopleIfsTwoHouseDemocracyFourSixVoteMajorityMinoritiesPropose Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created droves and droves of people that vote against what they know is right, vote against their own self-interest, in exchange for feeling good about themselves and also being immune from criticism.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensSelfFeelingsYoungLeftInterestSuccessfulCriticismVotePressureFeel GoodPsychologicalPeersEmployedSelf InterestImmunePeer Pressure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core, are process people. They're not policy wonks. They're people who want big money out of politics. They're people who want fairness from the DNC chair. They're people who want every vote to count. They're the people who don't like Wall Street money. Right? They're primarily about the process of politics and whether or not it's fair and whether or not big-money elites are rigging things in your favor.” PeopleWantTryingBigsProcessStreetsPolicyWallFairsVoteClintonFavorsCoreChairsActivistVotersReach OutElitesFairnessConcessions Author:Van Jones
“It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her.” PeopleIfsWantMightSupportVoteAngela Author:Barack Obama
“The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.” PeopleSometimesProblemYoungResultsViewsSituationVoteElectionPopulationOlder People Author:Barack Obama
“Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.” PeopleOrderProcessMillionsHappenedTrumpVoteClintonHonestlyFewerRight Place Author:Michael Lewis
“A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.” PeopleCountryBlackTalkingVoteDiscriminationBarackGood ManRacial Discrimination Author:Nat Hentoff
“There are plenty of meetings, receptions, dinners, and so if you are [at the U.N.] any length of time, and I was there for four and a half years, you formed pretty significant relationships with people from all over the world. And that's important to the work you do. If you're trying to rally the General Assembly to vote for something that matters to the United States, those personal relationships count.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingYearsImportantMatterStatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesFourVoteMeetingsDinnerSignificantPlentyLengthAssemblyPersonal RelationshipsReceptionHalf A YearGeneral Assembly Author:Susan Rice
“[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.” PeopleDifferencesReadyVoteVotingGoing Out Author:Julian Castro
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.” PeopleThinkingInterestLeaderCitizensVoteElectionOne DirectionElected Leaders Author:Samantha Power
“We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalGuyRightsTeamMovementBirthCivilizationCostOfficeModelsVoteIdeologyAlternativesCredibilityClashOther GuysPolitical MovementsClash Of Civilizations Author:Edward Snowden
“To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.” PeopleMadeFactsThreeSpeakBlackHoursHalfFourRightsVoteCivil RightsGuiltyAfrican AmericanThrownActivistBlack PeopleUnfairJuryRight To VoteSelectiveProsecutionNot GuiltyAllegationsChilled Author:Cornell William Brooks
“I wanted to see Democrats out there talking about our core set of issues. And let people around this country vote, let - people have caucuses, let them do it however they're going to do it.” PeopleCountryWantedTalkingIssuesVoteDemocratCoreCaucus Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I do not consider myself opposed to any of these Republicans, because any of these people if they were gonna get the nomination are gonna get my vote over Hillary Clinton. I am not in any way, shape, manner, or form trying to damage any of them.” PeopleIfsWayTryingFormRepublicanShapesVoteClintonDamageNominations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.” PeopleNeedsHappensWould BeOrderSocialPresidentSpecialSecurityVoteCardsPostsExecutivesProvidingSocial SecurityExecutive Orders Author:Al Sharpton
“We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.” PeopleLevelsVoteEducatedNeighborhoodGet BackBasics Author:Dolores Huerta
“It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.” PeopleWantMatterBigsAmericaGuyMillionsTeamTrumpVoteWho You ArePreparedSurpriseDinnerWant HimBowlingBig SurprisesBraggartsBlowhards Author:Randy Newman
“A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.” PeoplePartyPolicyPromiseVoteThirdsPredecessorsThird Parties Author:Edward Snowden
“Fox gets two million viewers a night, and MSNBC gets one. It's four million people, five million people, and 130 million people are going to vote. There are an awful lot of voters, and an awful lot of politically engaged, intelligent people who are not hanging on whatever happens on Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow.” PeopleTwoHappensNightMillionsFiveFourVoteIntelligentBillsAwfulEngagedVotersFoxesViewersWhatever HappensHanging OnBill O Reilly Author:William Kristol
“[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentLiteratureRepublicanVoteDemocratSouthConservativeCampaignsRacistVote For Me Author:David Duke
“It is crucial to have inspiring leaders who deliver on their promises. Cynicism has run deep, because many people think their vote does not matter or do vote and nothing happens.” PeopleThinkingDoeMatterHappensRunningLeaderPromiseVoteThings HappenCrucialCynicismInspiring Leader Author:Jesse Jackson
“CDU head Angela Merkel has tried for years to serve two sides: the conservative side by holding up her CDU party membership. But then at the same time she acts as though she were also a Social Democrat. I don't have this hydra-headed nature. In the end, people will vote for the Social Democratic original.” PeopleYearsTwoEndsSocialSidesPartyVoteOriginalsDemocraticDemocratConservativeTwo SidesMembershipAngelaHydra Author:Martin Schulz
“We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would've been extreme, we would've got 0.01 per cent of the vote. We got more than 10 per cent of the vote.” PeopleIfsPartyMillionsSupportVoteExtremesEnormousCentsDutch Author:Geert Wilders
“I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.” PeopleWantShouldDemocracyInvolvedVoteInterfereGet InvolvedAustralianMingling Author:Geert Wilders
“I don't believe that it's inconsistent to be suspicious of people and also be totally comfortable with deploying the technology, because you know its fractal potential. It's a vote for politics. It's a vote for the will to politics. There will be people, a one percent of people, that can use this stuff effectively, develop it, implement it. That's why it's necessary. That's why civilization exists, so those few people can exercise incredible techniques.” PeopleKnowsBelieveUseStuffTechnologyExerciseCivilizationComfortablePercentVoteDon't BelieveIncrediblesTechniqueSuspiciousInconsistentFractalsDeploying Author:Cody Wilson
“If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want certain people to vote because they are not educated enough, it is often simply become a way of excluding black and brown people.” PeopleIfsWayWantLooksSaidEnoughMomentsCertainDifficultBlackExampleTestsVoteSouthEducatedHeyBrownLiteracyMeasuring Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“When we look at the Trump candidacy or we look at any Republican candidacy for the presidency that's been successful, they tend to win by the margin of black and brown and poor people and immigrants who do not vote.” PeopleLooksWinningBlackPoorSuccessfulTrumpRepublicanVoteBrownImmigrantsPresidencyPoor PeopleMarginsCandidacy Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party supporter, I would argue that middle-class black people are voting against their interests oftentimes.” PeopleStillsBlackInterestPartyClassMiddleTruth IsVoteGreenArguingVotingMiddle ClassBlack PeopleSupporterGreen Party Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.” PeopleWorldWantWarPrinciplesVoteElectionAround The World Author:Mitt Romney
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I was assuming people vote sincerely. The trouble with methods where you have three or four classes, I think if people vote sincerely they may well be very satisfactory. The problem is the incentive to misrepresent your vote may be high.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsMayProblemThreeClassFourTroubleVoteMethodAssumingBotherImpossibilityIncentivesSincerelyTheorems Author:Kenneth Arrow
“There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.” PeopleWantBlackSimpleCenturyVoteSouthResistanceNarrativeBlack PeopleTwentieth Century Author:Bill Ayers
“The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.” PeopleFirstsMeanLongThreeBlackLinesWhiteDealsViolenceVoteElectionSouthExpectedTensionEmployeeBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaEmployersAprilClashQueues Author:Nelson Mandela
“The Democrats say the rich are rich because they stole all of their money or somehow fleeced the poor for all of their money. "If it weren't for these cheating, skunk, lying, rich people, you poor people would have the money! You remember when you had this, right? You remember when you had that house on the beach and your Rolls-Royce, and then one day some rich guy came over and stole it all from you? You remember that? So you want to vote for Obama and the Democrats to get your house back and your Rolls-Royce 'cause you remember when Koch brothers came and took it from you."” PeopleIfsWantRememberLyingGuyHouseCausesPoorRichBrotherOne DayVoteDemocratBeachCheatingPoor PeopleRemember WhenRich PeopleRolls Royce Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.” PeopleLongIndividualBalanceVoteElectionPresidentialPuzzlesEconomistPresidential Election Author:Robert H. Frank
“A lot of people say, "Ah, Rush, don't read the comments. You can't. This is loony..." You can't ignore this stuff. These people vote, and they are huge in number, and every social media app you can find from Twitter to Facebook, to LinkedIn, whatever the hell it is, they dominate.” PeopleSocialStuffNumbersHellMediaHugeVoteSocial MediaCommentAppsLinkedin Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As a Jewish man who has no interest in Judaism whatsoever, there's something in me that says when bad things have happened in the past, people were supposed to get more active and speak up and prevent them. That's what's important to me is that everybody - and I don't care what side you're on. You can disagree with me, but everyone better get active. Everybody better vote and be thoughtful.” PeopleMenImportantCarePastSpeakSidesInterestHappenedVoteDon't CareActiveI Don't CareThoughtfulBad ThingsDisagreeJudaismWhat's Important Author:Judd Apatow
“If the federal government is going to cost $100 million or more of your jobs going away, at a minimum the people who are elected by the people ought to have to vote and say, yes, I support taking away your job; or no, I don't support taking away your job.” PeopleIfsGovernmentJobsMillionsSupportOughtCostVoteGoing AwayMinimumFederal Government Author:Ted Cruz
“The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly willing to vote against Democrats. They are clearly willing to vote for Republicans. But when you get to the presidential election, it better be somebody that's not just part of the establishment. That's the message, and that's what they're not getting.” PeopleCountryAmericaLostWillingRepublicanThousandMessagesVoteElectionDemocratPresidentialSeatsEstablishmentPresidential ElectionMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.” PeopleAmericaLostResultsMillionsVoteElectionBeltsCalamityRust Author:Van Jones
“It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.” PeopleVoteFashionable Author:Van Jones
“I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.” PeopleIfsWantYearsCountryLightCareAbleFightingBlackWhitePartyHeroRepublicanHundredDoctorsVoteSickDon't CareTeaI Don't CareBlack PeopleCoalTea PartyMinersDisposableCoal MinersAmerican Hero Author:Van Jones
“I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.” PeopleWantCareInterestWhiteMoralHellGroupsPositionConcernVoteWorkersDon't CareI Don't CareNationalismSay AnythingPettyEnvironmentalistDisposableInterest GroupsAluminumAluminum Cans Author:Van Jones
“I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think I know how to run the household."” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveRunningI BelieveKnow HowStupidVoteVotersHouseholdVote For Me Author:Hilary Mantel
“The greatest thing to me about Obama is not the individual, it does not have to do with Obama himself - it's really about the people who have elected Obama. It demonstrates that people are ready for change, and I think Obama knows that, because he really came up from the people, the young generation especially. He motivated a lot of African Americans who never voted before to go and vote.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDoeYoungIndividualGenerationsReadyVoteAfrican AmericanMotivatedYoung GenerationReady For Change Author:Damian Marley
“The people who didn't vote for [Donald Trump], didn't watch his rallies. They only know what the media said about him.” PeopleKnowsSaidWatchesMediaTrumpVote Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people.” PeopleEnoughVoteBraveEstablishment Author:Donald Trump