#votes

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. ↗

— Ron Silver

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The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. ↗

— James Laughlin

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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?' ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

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The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

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To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes. ↗

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. ↗

— Harry Hay

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