“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.” PeopleHardProcessDifficultImpossibleVoteDemocraticCastsDemocratic Process Author:John Lewis
“In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.” MeanPastProcessVoteMajorityCastsAfrican AmericanVotingMinoritiesVotersPercentagesOhioAmerican Voters Author:John Lewis
“You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.” PeopleRealityPoliticalProcessDealsVoteHearingConstituents Author:Marco Rubio
“The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.” PersonsTurnsProcessTalkingVoteDemocraticSupposed To BeDemocratic Process Author:James Hansen
“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.” NeedsYearsFirstsHas BeensTodayWinningProcessPresidentYears AgoVoteTwentiesIraqSaddamHusseinTwenty OnePopular VoteElectoral Process Author:Jay Leno
“The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.” IfsBelieveProcessSecretVoteElectionVotersFraudElection Process Author:Riordan Roett
“What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night wed have what youd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.” KnowsHappensRunningNightProcessMorningBedVoteSmellChecksSenateCommitteesMondayMachineryJetTuesdayThursdayMonday NightTuesday Morning Author:Olympia Snowe
“Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.” ProcessDemocracyExerciseVoteMajorityDemocraticVotingDemocratic ProcessMajority Vote Author:Debbie Stabenow
“Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.” ProcessWifeBrotherPleaseVoteDearScaryVotersRegistrationLet Her GoDear BrotherVoter Registration Author:Hamid Karzai
“That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination at various points: They can deny the nominee a committee hearing; they can vote the person down in committee; they can refuse to schedule a vote on a nomination sent to the floor; and the full Senate can vote to reject the nomination. The Republicans' majority status also strengthens their negotiating position with the White House, making it more likely that a mutually acceptable candidate will be chosen for a given seat.” MeanPersonsCoursesHouseGivenProcessWhitePositionRepublicanVoteMajorityVariousRefuseDenyHearingChosenCandidatesSeatsRejectsWhite HouseSenateAcceptableCommitteesSchedulesNotableNominationsConfirmationNegotiating Author:Terry Eastland
“The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors” ImportantPlayLawProcessVoteAbuseArmyElectionCourtCorruptionSpreadSellingBuyingRepublicEmperorBuying And SellingLaw Courts Author:Plutarch
“One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.” IfsWayTryingUsePoliticalChoicesIndividualProcessDependsExerciseConsequenceVoteWideCampaignsGravesOne WayCandidatesVotersDistributionAnother WayPolitical PowerOur ChoicesContributorsPolitical Freedom Author:Barry Goldwater
“The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them that say, "I'm a skunk and will be hard to handle?" I've noticed that firms that avoid trouble over long periods of time have an institutional process that tunes bad clients out. Boy, if I were running a law firm, I'd want a system like that because a lot of firms have a lot of bad clients.” IfsWantLongHardRunningLawProcessSidesBoysTroubleFeetHugePeriodsTaxesCriticismVotePaidLawyerHandleFirmTunesShelterClientsApprovedLong Periods Of TimeLaw FirmsHard To Handle Author:Charlie Munger
“What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.” PeopleWantedPainValuesCultureCausesProcessAnimalVoteFundamentalsEcosystemsAdvocating Author:Terence McKenna
“We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveCountryMatterPoliticalProcessPartyDutyExerciseVoteNo Matter WhatObligationOur CountryPolitical PartiesPollsIf You BelieveRight To Vote Author:George W. Bush
“The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.” MeanLongCountryGovernmentPastProcessGoalStepsPrinciplesIssuesRecordsViolenceVoteCorruptionDecadesWelfareConcreteEvasion Author:Ayn Rand
“To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.” ProcessVotePursueAgendasFraudConspiracyPartisansStrawsGraspingTheoristsUnderstatementWindmills Author:George Voinovich
“We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.” PeopleWorldWantHas BeensDifferentStatesGovernmentMightPoliticalProcessInterestHoursFiveInfluenceStageOrdinaryVoteCongressPatternsIndianCorporateCorporationsVotingPhenomenonParliamentOrdinary PeopleDifferent DirectionsCorporate WorldInverted Author:Vandana Shiva
“It was a very unusual year [2015]. You usually don't have five campaigns operating full time in a state this late into the process, three states in. But I feel great that now that the choices have become less and less, more and more that new voter or alternative to Donald Trump vote, is going to coalesce around us.” FeelsYearsStatesChoicesThreeProcessFiveTrumpLateVoteCampaignsAlternativesVotersUnusual Author:Marco Rubio
“Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.” PeopleYearsCountryAgeYoungPoliticalProcessPartyRightsVoteDemocraticSouthDemocratic PartyInvolvingCarolinaSouth Carolina Author:Bernie Sanders
“Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.” PeopleAsksProcessRepublicanVoteImmigrationEmsLegal Immigration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.” KnowsWayWholeFilmProcessRocksBrokenMembersVotePopsScoreVotingCategoriesMetalsAcademyBroken Down Author:John Petrucci
“Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsPoliticalSufferingProcessEconomyVotePressureConstantUsualAssaultDisillusionmentRight To Vote Author:Annie Leonard
“People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote.” PeopleShouldMayEnoughMotherTurnsFatherProcessParentTeacherDoorsVoteDemocraticUrgesOrganizeGrandparentRegisterDemocratic Process Author:John Lewis
“You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.” PeopleEndsRunningCoursesFoundProcessGroupsOfficeGoldVoteSignificantPotGood PeopleRainbowRunning For OfficeSignificant ChangePot Of GoldElectoral Process Author:Dolores Huerta
“When I'm crossing the street, I look both ways and I process the information rationally because if I make a mistake I get hurt, but when I cast a vote, kind of regardless of how I voted, doesn't make a difference and that's sort of a recipe for uninformed and irrational voting.” IfsWayLooksKindProcessDifferencesHurtMistakeStreetsInformationVoteCastsMaking A DifferenceVotingIrrationalRecipesCrossingsUninformedCrossing The Street Author:Jason Brennan
“I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsLooksLittlesSchoolIndividualStrongProcessChanceWorrySuccessfulInformationHigh SchoolVoteForgottenRationalBeing SuccessfulVotersIncentivesSkepticalCivics Author:Jason Brennan
“Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.” NeedsMeanProcessAcceptingVoteAccountsLabourAgendasParliamentRecognise Author:Theresa May
“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
“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
“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
“In order to get past disagreements, you just can't have one person with power decide. In other words, so just because I'm a boss, it would be terrible if I then said, "Okay, we're gonna go do this." That's why, after that thoughtful disagreement, there has to be a process of an idea meritocracy. That means okay, now you have to vote, not that the decision resides with power. And then you vote and move beyond it.” IfsMeanPersonsSaidIdeasWould BePastMovingOrderProcessDecisionTerribleOkayVoteThoughtfulBossDisagreementMeritocracy Author:Ray Dalio
“Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right in Afghanistan. Rights of former slaves were very limited until the 1960s, and in some ways still are. In these and other domains there has been progress in democracy, though still seriously flawed. In other dimensions - the control of concentrated wealth over the political process, for example, things have gotten much worse in recent years. And there is much more, in both directions.” WayYearsHas BeensStillsAblePoliticalProcessWealthDemocracyRightsProgressExampleVoteSlaveFormerDimensionsAfghanistanDomainFlawed1960s Author:Noam Chomsky
“We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare... it was a very large issue in the campaign. And, the reconciliation process does present an opportunity and we're reviewing that to see what's possible through reconciliation.” DoeOpportunityProcessIssuesVoteBillsCampaignsReconciliationObamacareProceeding Author:Mitch McConnell
“There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.” IfsShouldHumansSaidWarLawCultureProcessSidesViewsDemocracyTakenShareJudgingVoteDemocraticSexualityPoint Of ViewRepresentativesAssaultDemocratic Process Author:Pat Robertson
“General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.” NeedsGivingWellsWishProcessVoteFundamentalsParticipationCredibilityVote For MeElectoral ProcessMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.” ThinkingIdeasPoliticsProcessOfficeVoteUltimateElectionDemocraticBoxesCandidatesBreakfastCerealMerchandiseIndignityPresidents DayDemocratic ProcessElections And VotingBreakfast CerealElection Process Author:Adlai E. Stevenson
“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.” PeopleThinkingWritingIdeasDreamAmericaPoliticalFearProcessSimpleBusinessDoorsGeniusVoteMiracleHearingRetributionOwn BusinessBribeInsistenceTrue GeniusSmall MiraclesSimple Dreams Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.” PeopleImportantProcessResultsFairsVoteElectionIncludingVotingCountingHave ConfidenceElection Results Author:Zalmay Khalilzad
“When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.” StatesHelpingGovernmentAmericaProcessOffersResourcesVoteCongressVotingFederal GovernmentAll State Author:DeForest Soaries
“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.” StatesProcessVoteCastsAbsenceMeaningfulVulnerableVotingFraudRequirementsHypeBallots Author:Virgil Goode