Sheldon Hackney Quotes

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

In politics heaven lies at the feet of the poor masses.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

We've got to take care of the poor.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

The poor don't vote all the time.

If you have more rich people and more poor people and fewer people in the middle, what you lose is democracy.

One-fourth of the children in this country are poor—and they don't vote.

Bribing rich people to help poor people, rather than helping poor people directly, is a popular approach because the cost of tax breaks doesn't show up on the government books.

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

The league will have to finally decide whether it will remain a body representing the upper classes of Indian Muslims or Muslim masses who have so far with good reason, taken no interest in it.

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.

Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

The Government should be taking notice of the youth of today so much more. They're trying to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor. If I sat down with David Cameron in a room, I would ask him how he feels about it and what the hell he's doing about it.

Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.