#ballot

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots. ↗

— James Stockdale

#ballots #becoming #call #candidate #committed

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will. ↗

— John Sununu

#ballot #elected #find #get #great

The ballot is stronger than bullets. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#bullets #stronger #than

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballot #ballot box #better #box #choices

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot. ↗

— Henry Cuellar

#clear #consistently #democrat #democratic #election

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#any #ballots #come #down #election

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#believers #engage #establish #faith #imply

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#ballot #believe #chance #get #going

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullets #peaceful #rightful #successors

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bloody #bullets #give #necessary #only