Sol Levitan Quotes

I never had asked, and never should ask, the vote of any person for any office.

You damned fools. You can either vote for me for mayor or you can go to hell

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

Voting for a politician is very different then saying you like somebody or don't like somebody.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

I never ever paid attention to any election.

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

People are what this election is all about.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.

The election campaign is no time to get involved in very, very serious issues.

Every election is a matter of definition.

So what you do is you just reach up there and grab that lever [in the voting booth] and say, "All the way with LBJ.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

The last I checked, this is an election, and in an election we play politics.

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

The only thing about politics I do discuss is, be into them: Read what's online. Read what the candidates are talking about. Try to understand why people are fighting over what the candidates are standing for.