#vote

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. ↗

— Eric Massa

#america #bill #cap-and-trade #ceremony #chief

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Eric Massa

#because #bill #care #come #deciding

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#allowed #also #devoted #every #felt

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain. ↗

— Francis Maude

#britain #contemporary #home #just #like

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this! ↗

— Theresa May

#issue #lot #men #politics #realised

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. ↗

— John McCarthy

#behalf #devoted #ideology #killed #once

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#am #because #call #frequency #got

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#any #appear #compromise #hang #i

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#got #president #said #vote #you

I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions. ↗

— George McGovern

#campaign #cast #constantly #cut #eye