Election Math
Why the vote count is prolonged
QuotaBillsAll politics is local. - Thomas P O'Neil
Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis
A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson
Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard
Erection: When Japanese go to vote. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin
In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte
You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. - Charlton Heston
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken
Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno
Obvious: The most dangerous word in mathematics - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries. - David Hilbert
Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown
The Golden Rule has no place in a political campaign. - John J Ingalls
Self-government won't work without self-discipline. - Paul Harvey
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W.E.B. Du Bois
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. - Kim Campbell
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell
It's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. - Sydney Pollack
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. - Lewis Black
Republicans will do anything for the poor except get off their backs. - American Proverb
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. - John Wesley
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government. - Mark Twain
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. - Theodore White
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. - Bertrand Russell
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. - Roger Bacon
The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - H L Mencken
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E.B. White
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. - Claude McKay
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. - Bertrand Russell
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. - Thomas Huxley
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm
I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican. - Donald Trump
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. - Alexander Hamilton
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. - Napoleon Bonaparte
A democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal
I am quite sure now that often in matters concerning religion and politics, a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys. - Mark Twain
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home. - Winston Churchill
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer
Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy