The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.
Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.
An elected executive—whether President, governor or mayor—needs a popularity majority every day in his term.
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'
I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.
When you stand your ground, and you are attacked by liberals and attacked by the press, that is going to earn you the respect of voters.
Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.
I was appointed to the Senate, and it has been my job to serve in the Senate and then to earn the vote of Minnesotans.
They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters.
There's going to be a lot of people that don't like you, and there's nothing you can do about it. Instead of trying to win them over one by one, you need to do things that are getting huge swaths of votes [in the elections].
I have popular support.
Governor Hogan's successes and support in Maryland, including with Democrats, prove that Marylanders like the change he's bringing to our state, and they will support a candidate like me who will bring that same real change to Washington.
To sell a new tax to the voters you have to be very specific about what it is being used for.
You know, the state of Connecticut is... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut.
