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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
VICKY HARTZLER![]()
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothin...
JOSEPH STALIN The two previous Republican contesters got the same percentage of votes. I thought that I might do a...
BOB JOHNSON In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the el...
JUAN WILLIAMS After the election November 7, from the point of view of the citizens, ... all votes were equal, but...
FRANK MYERS![]()
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
JOSEPH STALIN![]()
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
JOSEF STALIN![]()
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Tex...
YOGI BERRA![]()
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
JOSEPH STALIN Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a pr...
DAVID HERBERT DONALD![]()
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole o...
G.K. CHESTERTON![]()
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin...
JACKIE KENNEDY Everything that Nunez does between now and November should be put into the perspective of turning ou...
KAREN HANRETTY![]()
They're going to have to reach out or they're going to lose votes.
RALPH NADER I think he can get from 75 to 80 votes.
KENT CONRAD It seems like they're holding off (the final count) to see, exactly like they did last time, to see ...
CIRO RODRIGUEZ How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a M...
PAUL WEYRICH We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral votes.
ANDREW CARD Either way, it comes down to just 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,360,000 votes cast, ... That's ...
DON SIEGELMAN Obviously some of the votes that he might wish he hadn't cast that I've heard about surprise me beca...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN While voting was generally calm, the election day process deteriorated progressively during the coun...
ALCEE HASTINGS [But he pledged to bring the issue to a vote.] I don't know that we'll have the votes on the day we ...
ROY BLUNT I think he probably picked up a good three percent of the votes and probably cements his [win] if th...
STEPHEN KLEIN![]()
There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, an...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I will bet my bottom dollar that it will bring a significant number of gay and lesbian votes to Cuom...
ETHAN GETO Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
ROBERT A. DAHL![]()
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART![]()
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to th...
GEORGE WILL![]()
The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to...
ANTONIN SCALIA There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it ...
DAN SCHNUR I was really excited and surprised to see the amount of votes we did receive, ... I'm looking forwar...
ROBERT EATON![]()
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have eno...
HERBERT HOOVER In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get ...
BERT LANCE It should be a pretty interesting year with the elections. You have to watch how the council votes d...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN There are quite a few votes to be won by saying we will tax advertising or stop it.
BARRY DAY I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to w...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD It just takes a while to log all those votes. We want to be sure that it's correct.
GORDON FISCHER We are fully aware that the votes of somebody like Phil Travis could be affected by Reilly's decisio...
ARLINE ISAACSON This is a red state, he came in on Election Eve and he had no discernible effect. If anything, he ma...
LARRY SABATO We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.
PETE WILSON decided by illegal votes.
SUSAN MOLINARI On Election Day there is a well-oiled machine that knows how to turn those votes out from specific n...
ELLIOTT STONECIPHER We anticipate that we have the votes to prevail and it really is a question of timing,
SEAN TIPTON I'm resting a little easier. Now I feel confident. There were enough votes out there that anything c...
TONY NELSSEN The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things th...
DANA PERINO Special election ballots do not list the party affiliations of candidates, ... Should no candidate i...
ERIC CLARK What we were trying to convince the court was that the rules shouldn't be changed in the middle of t...
THEODORE OLSON If Parliament votes the cuts, it will be a message that they think La Scala isn't important, that fi...
GAETANO BLANDINI It is all based on votes now. The more people we can get to vote for Will, the better. Honestly, fin...
SARA ROBINSON He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majo...
CARL TOBIAS What I am asking is that the court use its power so that the votes of all the people of Florida that...
DAVID BOIES![]()
To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requiremen...
RICK PERRY Ten votes. That says it all. Each person matters. Don't underestimate the power of your voice. Stude...
EMILY BESLER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The votes have been counted twice if not more. It's a misrepresentation. He wanted a hand count, now...
MINDY TUCKER![]()
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug...
G. K. CHESTERTON![]()
You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I don't know that you have the votes here today.
JEFF DENHAM![]()
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY It's hard to get write-in votes, so even if they only add 1,000 votes to Carr with this, it's worth ...
WILLIAM BINNING As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of ...
JUSTIN AMASH They have collected protest votes, and the votes of people who normally don't vote.
UWE ANDERSEN The votes don't seem to be there.
BRIAN HANNA![]()
Let’s continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) ...
CORAZON AQUINO![]()
AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way.
AMBROSE BIERCE I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for...
IMELDA MAY![]()
Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has...
YOGI BERRA![]()
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
NICOLA STURGEON If you become known as a single-issue candidate against the war in a conservative district, I don't ...
STEVEN SCHIER This vote today in committee means that Judge Roberts will be voted on on the Senate floor next week...
GLORIA BORGER![]()
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. Fo...
RUSH LIMBAUGH It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our v...
VIRGIL GOODE![]()
The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron...
OTTO VON BISMARCK![]()
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and i...
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK A second round is definite. One can read in between the lines that none of them will be able to obta...
FRANCES JOHNSON In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one thir...
MAX MATHURIN I got some votes in games that I didn't expect to poll in.
BILL PARKER The forgotten man. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is t...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pa...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER We hope that as we process the votes, you will all wait for the outcome of this election with a spir...
ALAN DOSS The vote shows that a strong, unapologetic, judicial conservative in the mold of Justices Antonin Sc...
WENDY LONG![]()
We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not ...
TODD AKIN The farther you can get votes away from the polling place, the easier it is to manipulate them.
TRACY CAMPBELL![]()
The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the t...
PAUL A. SAMUELSON![]()
[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Flo...
JIMMY CARTER As long as there aren't any tie votes, it's acceptable to leave that seat open, ... It appears to be...
ALAN PETERSON Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,
ALLAN BENSE I would imagine we have 55 or 56 votes to repeal it, but it's not going to get done,
CHARLES GRASSLEY A lot of times the e-mails and phone calls that come in will shape how he votes on an issue.
JENNIFER HALL It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD I think it's probably inevitable that the votes are going to exist to call witnesses,
BYRON DORGAN![]()
Votes should be weighed not counted.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER![]()
Votes should be weighed, not counted
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER![]()
Votes should be weighed not counted.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
WILLIAM MARCY TWEED As long as I count the votes, what are YOU going to do about it?
WILLIAM TWEED What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, ...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY![]()
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town t...
SUSAN ORLEAN an important victory for what has been Al Gore and Joe Lieberman's basic principle since Election Da...
BILL DALEY There is a tiny chance that we will have a second round, but I fear Preval has made a clean sweep of...
LESLIE MANIGAT
VICKY HARTZLER
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothin... JOSEPH STALIN The two previous Republican contesters got the same percentage of votes. I thought that I might do a...
BOB JOHNSON In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the el...
JUAN WILLIAMS After the election November 7, from the point of view of the citizens, ... all votes were equal, but...
FRANK MYERS
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. JOSEPH STALIN
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. JOSEF STALIN
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Tex... YOGI BERRA
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. JOSEPH STALIN Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a pr...
DAVID HERBERT DONALD
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole o... G.K. CHESTERTON
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investin... JACKIE KENNEDY Everything that Nunez does between now and November should be put into the perspective of turning ou...
KAREN HANRETTY
They're going to have to reach out or they're going to lose votes. RALPH NADER I think he can get from 75 to 80 votes.
KENT CONRAD It seems like they're holding off (the final count) to see, exactly like they did last time, to see ...
CIRO RODRIGUEZ How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a M...
PAUL WEYRICH We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral votes.
ANDREW CARD Either way, it comes down to just 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,360,000 votes cast, ... That's ...
DON SIEGELMAN Obviously some of the votes that he might wish he hadn't cast that I've heard about surprise me beca...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN While voting was generally calm, the election day process deteriorated progressively during the coun...
ALCEE HASTINGS [But he pledged to bring the issue to a vote.] I don't know that we'll have the votes on the day we ...
ROY BLUNT I think he probably picked up a good three percent of the votes and probably cements his [win] if th...
STEPHEN KLEIN
There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, an... SOURCE UNKNOWN I will bet my bottom dollar that it will bring a significant number of gay and lesbian votes to Cuom...
ETHAN GETO Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
ROBERT A. DAHL
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to th... GEORGE WILL
The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to... ANTONIN SCALIA There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it ...
DAN SCHNUR I was really excited and surprised to see the amount of votes we did receive, ... I'm looking forwar...
ROBERT EATON
You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have eno... HERBERT HOOVER In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get ...
BERT LANCE It should be a pretty interesting year with the elections. You have to watch how the council votes d...
COUNCILMAN HAL MARTIN There are quite a few votes to be won by saying we will tax advertising or stop it.
BARRY DAY I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to w...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD It just takes a while to log all those votes. We want to be sure that it's correct.
GORDON FISCHER We are fully aware that the votes of somebody like Phil Travis could be affected by Reilly's decisio...
ARLINE ISAACSON This is a red state, he came in on Election Eve and he had no discernible effect. If anything, he ma...
LARRY SABATO We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.
PETE WILSON decided by illegal votes.
SUSAN MOLINARI On Election Day there is a well-oiled machine that knows how to turn those votes out from specific n...
ELLIOTT STONECIPHER We anticipate that we have the votes to prevail and it really is a question of timing,
SEAN TIPTON I'm resting a little easier. Now I feel confident. There were enough votes out there that anything c...
TONY NELSSEN The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things th...
DANA PERINO Special election ballots do not list the party affiliations of candidates, ... Should no candidate i...
ERIC CLARK What we were trying to convince the court was that the rules shouldn't be changed in the middle of t...
THEODORE OLSON If Parliament votes the cuts, it will be a message that they think La Scala isn't important, that fi...
GAETANO BLANDINI It is all based on votes now. The more people we can get to vote for Will, the better. Honestly, fin...
SARA ROBINSON He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majo...
CARL TOBIAS What I am asking is that the court use its power so that the votes of all the people of Florida that...
DAVID BOIES
To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requiremen... RICK PERRY Ten votes. That says it all. Each person matters. Don't underestimate the power of your voice. Stude...
EMILY BESLER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The votes have been counted twice if not more. It's a misrepresentation. He wanted a hand count, now...
MINDY TUCKER
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug... G. K. CHESTERTON
You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER
I don't know that you have the votes here today. JEFF DENHAM
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY It's hard to get write-in votes, so even if they only add 1,000 votes to Carr with this, it's worth ...
WILLIAM BINNING As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of ...
JUSTIN AMASH They have collected protest votes, and the votes of people who normally don't vote.
UWE ANDERSEN The votes don't seem to be there.
BRIAN HANNA
Let’s continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) ... CORAZON AQUINO
AFRICAN, n. A nigger that votes our way. AMBROSE BIERCE I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for...
IMELDA MAY
Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has... YOGI BERRA
It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. NICOLA STURGEON If you become known as a single-issue candidate against the war in a conservative district, I don't ...
STEVEN SCHIER This vote today in committee means that Judge Roberts will be voted on on the Senate floor next week...
GLORIA BORGER
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. Fo... RUSH LIMBAUGH It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our v...
VIRGIL GOODE
The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron... OTTO VON BISMARCK
[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and
majority votes, but by blood and i... KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK A second round is definite. One can read in between the lines that none of them will be able to obta...
FRANCES JOHNSON In some polling stations, blank ballots totaled a quarter of the votes, and in some others, one thir...
MAX MATHURIN I got some votes in games that I didn't expect to poll in.
BILL PARKER The forgotten man. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is t...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pa...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER We hope that as we process the votes, you will all wait for the outcome of this election with a spir...
ALAN DOSS The vote shows that a strong, unapologetic, judicial conservative in the mold of Justices Antonin Sc...
WENDY LONG
We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not ... TODD AKIN The farther you can get votes away from the polling place, the easier it is to manipulate them.
TRACY CAMPBELL
The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the t... PAUL A. SAMUELSON
[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Flo... JIMMY CARTER As long as there aren't any tie votes, it's acceptable to leave that seat open, ... It appears to be...
ALAN PETERSON Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,
ALLAN BENSE I would imagine we have 55 or 56 votes to repeal it, but it's not going to get done,
CHARLES GRASSLEY A lot of times the e-mails and phone calls that come in will shape how he votes on an issue.
JENNIFER HALL It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD I think it's probably inevitable that the votes are going to exist to call witnesses,
BYRON DORGAN
Votes should be weighed not counted. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Votes should be weighed, not counted FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Votes should be weighed not counted. FRIEDRICH SCHILLER As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?
WILLIAM MARCY TWEED As long as I count the votes, what are YOU going to do about it?
WILLIAM TWEED What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, ...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town t... SUSAN ORLEAN an important victory for what has been Al Gore and Joe Lieberman's basic principle since Election Da...
BILL DALEY There is a tiny chance that we will have a second round, but I fear Preval has made a clean sweep of...
LESLIE MANIGAT
Liars are always ready to take oaths. 
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. 
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. 