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I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].
The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.
In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.
The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.
It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States ... should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.
The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.
congress of angels.
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?
I'm tired now of the elections.
I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
Yesterday was Election Day. If we have any Democrats in the audience, I'm sorry but you're going to have to give up your seats.
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
Congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless
Elections are highly-publicized puppet shows. Many puppets in the show are handled by the same owner, and regardless of their different costumes and voices, their agenda is one and the same. The man with the most puppets in the show usually wins the audience.
I have a Congress on my hands.
I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.
You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.
Elections are rarely perfect.
Congress is not a party which fades when not in power
Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.
I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.
Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision ...
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
CHAPTER XXIX THE SENATOR'S LETTER
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.
When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country.
The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.
In many states, voters didn't get to choose their own members of Congress. Members of Congress got to choose their own voters.
Elections decide which horde of rats gets to gnaw at the bones.
Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.
The Congress as I see, does not belong to me or to you, but it belongs to the whole country.
Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah!
Repect yourself ... The rest will follow.
Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.
I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
Every election is determined by the people who show up.
A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There are dozens of these parties, sponsored by large corporations with a sincere public-spirited desire to become larger.
How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.
Congress: Bingo with billions.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."
Party is organized opinion.
Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating all the elements of the Republican party - including the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long-haired men and the short-haired women.
Our ancient laws expressly declare that those who are but delegates themselves shall not delegate to others powers which require judgment and integrity in their exercise.
Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.
We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.
The party out of office becomes the articulate one.
I belong to no organized political party; I'm a Democrat
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people
When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.
[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.
The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect
they want to go with the winners.
Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.
I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.
I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
I think I've had my fill of electoral law.
I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.
The sleep of reason encourages the elections.
Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.
He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.
The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.
Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)
The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.
The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders.
Elections have consequences.
I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.