“Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.” PeopleProblemTroubleVoteCome UpParliamentMps Author:Vince Cable
“Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women and children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe will lead to such an outcome.” MenWayBelieveWellsChildrenStatesProblemRunningPoliticalI BelieveRiskEconomicMilitaryRootsVoteInnocentOutcomesResolutionSecretaryMen WomenEloquenceDiplomaticInnocent Man Author:Barbara Lee
“People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.” PeopleKnowsProblemGovernmentJobsLosesFailingEffectsSourceProgramVoteInvisibleVisibleDiscontentGovernment ProgramsBenefactors Author:Milton Friedman
“I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is most folk really don’t have choices.” IfsThinkingBelieveCountryProblemYoungChoicesI BelieveVoteFolksMessVoters Author:Dick Gregory
“I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.” PeopleProblemVoteIndiaGovernance Author:Narendra Modi
“The two-party system is a bad joke on the American people; when it comes to Republicans and Democrats remember they are two sides of the same coin. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil and not an answer to our problems. A vote for a Republican or a Democrat will not fix anything and is a wasted vote.” PeopleStillsTwoProblemRememberEvilSidesAnswersPartyRepublicanJokesVoteDemocratVotingCoinsTwo SidesLesser EvilTwo EvilsTwo Party SystemLesser Of Two EvilsBad Jokes Author:Aaron Russo
“It's very well known that the Republicans have problems with minorities. The Democrats have big problems with white people. Obama only got 39% of the vote. He only got 36% of the working-class white people.” PeopleWellsProblemBigsWhiteKnownClassRepublicanVoteDemocratMinoritiesWorking ClassWell KnownBig Problems Author:Bill Maher
“Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.” ProblemWindPoliticianVoteElection Author:Burt Prelutsky
“The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingHelpingProblemRiskTroubleLosingVote Author:Thomas Sowell
“The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.” MatterProblemGovernmentVoteVoting Author:Andrew Napolitano
“From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.” ProblemGovernmentPoliticalGainsProgramVoteHeavySolveDuesFuelPyramidsWheatShortagePolitical PowerMazesGasolineRefiningEthanol Author:Robert Prechter
“Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingEndsProblemTurnsVoteElectionNotionSolveSillyFetishInfantile Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U.N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them.” ThinkingWayShowsProblemAnswersRolesTakenMiddleVoteIncludingActiveEastRussiaIranMiddle East Author:Rand Paul
“When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.” ThinkingYearsEndsStatesDoneProblemTogetherProgressArmsNeededRepublicanSummerVoteResponsibleMeetingsPhonesExcitedNuclearRussiaEndlessExpertsCall MeSenateProblem SolvingSecretarySleevesReductionTreatiesBeing ResponsiblePhone CallsNuclear Arms Author:Hillary Clinton
“I vote for who I think it deserves it. I already voted for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2014 [when he won his 3rd bdo]. I don't see a problem.” ThinkingProblemDeserveVoteCristiano Ronaldo Author:Neymar
“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.” PeopleThinkingEnoughProblemTodayTrumpVoteClinton Author:John Brabender
“Remember, we could solve this in a heartbeat with ranked-choice voting. The Democrats won't pass it. This allows you to rank your choices and eliminates the intimidation and the fear. They won't pass it; I know because I helped file the bill. Sixteen years ago in Massachusetts they could have solved the spoiler problem. They won't do it because they rely on fear. The fact that they rely on fear tells you something very important. They are not on your side. For that reason alone, they do not deserve your vote.” KnowsYearsImportantReasonFactsProblemRememberChoicesSidesDeserveYears AgoVoteBillsDemocratSolveRelyVotingFilesHeartbeatSixteenYour SideIntimidationMassachusettsSpoilers Author:Jill Stein
“The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little incentive to take care in carefully considering what your vote would mean.” MeanLittlesProblemCareIndividualDifferencesMassVoteTake CareVotingConsideringIncentives Author:Jason Brennan
“We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.” PeopleUseProblemNamesRight NowConsequenceVoteSolveVotingDividedBallotsReferendumsUnintended Consequences Author:Jill Stein
“Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.” PeopleNeedsMadeUseProblemSidesResultsEconomicPerspectivePromiseExpectationsVoteCleverRisingSlogansMisleadPersonal ExperiencesDissatisfactionKhomeini Author:Akbar Ganji
“There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100 to $150 dollars to each of the teachers. They gave about $500 dollars to those who were getting married. Through this process, they obviously collected a lot of votes, but these monies could not solve the structural problems that these people face. But the only result, the only consequence, was that a big sum from the budget was wasted this way.” PeopleWayKindProblemBigsFacesProcessResultsTeacherExampleMarriedEvidenceConsequenceVoteDollarsCorruptionSolveEnormousAll KindsBudgetsDistributionGetting Married Author:Akbar Ganji
“[Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.” PersonsLongCountryProblemLostStrongCommunityWhiteClassNew YorkIdentityMessagesVoteMarkDemocratCastsDeeperCraftsAfrican AmericanLiberalismLgbtBroadsArticlesWorking ClassNew York TimesLgbt Community Author:Steve Inskeep
“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
“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
“Obamacare is a failure but you're going to need 60 votes to change preexisting conditions - other things to make the system work and that's the problem of repealing and replacing, is you can't do it because it's a broken system.” NeedsProblemConditionsBrokenVoteObamacareRepealing Author:Rick Santorum
“They'll give you an Oscar if they think you're about to drop dead. The problem with The Oscars is, the average age of The Academy is 84. They wheel those people in from Palm Springs and hook up their IVs and they vote. The people that go to movies are under the age of 28, for the most part, so there's this total disconnect between what the Academy thinks is a great movie and what the audience actually wants to see.” PeopleThinkingGivingProblemAgeAudienceSpringVoteHookHook Up Author:Joe Bob Briggs
“On the table, Donald Trump: I'm gonna let Obamacare fail. I am going to let it fail. I am not gonna own this. This is an utter failure, utter disaster. I've tried. I worked with people. Obviously we don't have enough Republicans who want to vote this way. We need more Republicans in 2018, but I'm gonna let it fail 'cause I am not owning this baby. So failure, which is Obamacare, stays in place with all of its problems, expenses, failures versus repealing it. I'm telling you, the most painful choice here is leaving Obamacare in place.” PeopleEnoughProblemChoicesFailingBabyRepublicanVoteLeavingPainfulDisaster Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To say that most recent elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen, that`s like saying we never landed on the moon, frankly. That`s how silly it is. No. I don`t think that`s good for our country. The problem is, it does create doubt in people`s minds. And I worry about 25% of Americans who may say when an election is over, it was stolen.” PeopleThinkingMindCountryProblemWorryDoubtMoonVoteElectionSillyOver It Author:John Kasich
“Once you convince people that they're victims, you really own them because you've just told them that whatever problems they have in life, it's not their fault. And then you're telling them they can't fix them by themselves. Look at your life. Your life sucks. You're a victim of these people here, you can't fix it. You need us looking out for you. "Us" being the Democrat Party in this case, the people that go out and get votes.” PeopleProblemPartyVoteVictimDemocratConvinceLife Sucks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Cocaine and crack are essentially the same thing. Cocaine is a middle-class drug. Crack is a poor person's drug, which carries a felony conviction for possession. And once you get this felony conviction, which given that the whole community is pretty much strung out on it, you become basically sidelined into an alternative kind of lifestyle. You become completely marginalized. You can't get public housing, you can't get a lot of jobs, you can't vote. You have a real problem doing anything to get you out of the rut that you're in. You become basically a non - person.” KindRealProblemCommunityPoorDrugVoteConvictionPossessionLifestyleCocaine Author:Nick Broomfield
“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeReasonProblemRaceStupidVoteIntelligentCastsObviousGenderFavorsIdenticalTokensStupid ThingsClansIdentity Politics Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.” ProblemKidsBornFocusBeatsAdultsResourcesVoteScientistCuriosityMind Blowing Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.” ProblemPoliticsVoteCuresAmendmentsRemedySecond Amendment Author:Sharron Angle
“There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.” PeopleYearsEndsDoneFeelingsProblemBigsVoteMilesImmigrationOptimisticImmigration ReformBipartisanMiles To Go Author:Michael Bennet
“You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.” IfsWayYearsLongCountryProblemAsksIndividualCommunityResponsibilityAirMinutesCarPercentVoteCleanEnvironmentalFavorsPollutionEcologyLong WayMother EarthEmissionsSave Mother EarthIndividual ResponsibilitySave The EnvironmentAir PollutionClean AirEco FriendlyEnvironmental ProblemsEnvironmental PollutionEnvironmental Responsibility Author:William Ruckelshaus
“If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.” IfsThinkingBelieveCountryProblemWould BeI BelieveInterestSpecialGunVoteBiggerWake UpPoliceCorruptionGun ControlVersusSpecial InterestsPopular VoteBigger ProblemsPolice Work Author:Garry McCarthy
“This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.” WayProblemDesireOrderFightingTakenClearGayVoteRegardCorruptionSolveGenuineGentlemanThemeSuspicionSyriaCrystalsFashionableGay Rights Author:Vladimir Putin