Quotes of Electorate - somelinesforyou

“ In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ I am a Roman citizen. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. ”

- Pauline Kael

“ The governor has said that we have gained 360 million pounds. ”

- Kenny Rogers

“ The system is rigged. The politicians are picking the voters instead of the voters picking the politicians. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West. ”

- Viktor Yushchenko

“ We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. ”

- Tim Berners Lee

“ The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. ”

- Robert Reich

“ These are Russian citizens, and they have no other motherland. ”

- Vladimir Putin

“ Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. ”

- Ludwig Mises

“ You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. ”

- Donella Meadows

“ Let's honor the memory of the victims of 9/11 and their families by working hard to protect our citizens and our country. ”

- Christopher Bond

“ Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ A citizen of no mean city. ”

- Bible

“ It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. ”

- Wangari Maathai

“ The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. ”

- Wendell Willkie

“ If you look at the history of endorsements in this campaign, they haven't had a lot of sway with voters, which is understandable,... Voters make their own decisions in presidential campaigns. ”

- John Edwards

“ It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones, Mr Mandela has said. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ The Lithuanian voters have made a historic choice over this weekend, one which I am sure is the right one. ”

- Romano Prodi

“ This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. ”

- Plato

“ Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money. ”

- Richard J. Needham

“ My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off. ”

- Pete Domenici

“ We lost everything. We even won our own constituency. ”

- Maryon Pearson

“ Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ Beggars can't be choosers. ”

- Unknown

“ The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most beautiful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts. ”

- Jack Buck

“ If you look at the big picture, I think the whole THG, designer drug scandal is a good thing for the sport,... Every time someone gets caught I see that as a positive, because it is an effort to clean up the sport. We really have to look at drug use in sports, whether track and field or any other sport, just like you would look at crime in society… ”

- Michael Johnson
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