Millicent Fawcett Quotes

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential level. People often go for somebody that they like or somebody that they can identify with.

I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Politicians livelihoods depend on what people think.

No politician is any longer interested in the question whether a measure is fit to produce the ends aimed at. What alone counts for him is whether the majority of the voters favor or reject it.

I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand on policies.

Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

The point of a political party is to attract a broad base of members and activists and lots of them.

Voters seem to enjoy voting for what experts believe they won't vote for.

The people still get to choose whether they want to support conservatives or if they want to support Mr. Trump, whose record is not conservative.

My interest as a regional party is to support, or try and support, whichever party fulfils the aspirations of Odisha.

Every challenger has come forward and said he's going to challenge me and win because I'm out of touch with the constituents. We run a race, the election comes, and the majority of voters disagree with them.

My advice to Republicans: Stop worrying about the 'Hispanic' vote. Focus on being true to your party platform, because the party that can deliver economic opportunity along with traditional family values will prevail with Hispanics - and most other Americans.

I know Democrats who have written Lindsey Graham checks.

I do vote, and naturally, I vote for so-called extremist parties, the further to the right the better, but that's where my participation in politics ends.

I didn't form Kulanu to return to Likud.

I'll tell you where I stand on the issues, and then I'll let the pundits decide how to label me.

I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.

Mahesh is not campaigning for any political party. Nor does he intend to contest any elections or pursue any kind of political ambitions.

Middle-class commuters in Rickmansworth and Berkhamsted are wondering whether the Conservative party is the party that they have traditionally supported. And they certainly don't want to support a Farage-lite party.