#vote

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. ↗

— James K. Polk

#among #congress #create #disreputable #embarrasses

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#citizenship #comes #contract #democratic #most

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it. ↗

— Prince

#i #nothing #vote

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#china #entered #maintained #nations #position

I voted for McCain. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#mccain #voted

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#been #being #burned #counted #god

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union. ↗

— Jim Renacci

#coal #family #grandfather #grew #i

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#blogging #changing #collect #collecting #communicate

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake? ↗

— Tim Robbins

#communist #communist party #god #going #i

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #catering #confirmation #democrats #entire