Marc Antony Quotes

We may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase.

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections.

I've been in a lot of elections.

Any time you put your name on a ballot, there is a risk of election.

In many cases they [members of congress] go outside their district [to raise money.] They in effect trade policy positions for money. Then they go back to their districts and use the money to run campaigns on a nonpolicy basis.

“Vote early and vote often,” the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

The spree of big money campaigning—and the corruption that goes with it—seems guaranteed to worsen …. Campaign money handlers will keep pushing the limits wherever and however they can—and the integrity of our electoral system will pay the price.

…wealth’s influence on civic elections is still more pernicious. Money is frequently the most forcible logic, and he that carries the longest purse, will often carry the most votes.

This election is not about me. It is about you.

Farm subsidies are bribes for votes.

Elections are won ... chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Today’s expensive election campaigns are entrenching a culture of patronage [in Indonesia].

Remember, at the end of the day [election] campaigns are always about the candidates.

This Court now concludes that independent [political] expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.

Elections are about the future and not about the past.

The structure of private campaign finance has essentially pre-corrupted our politicians, so that they can't even recognize explicit bribery because it feels the same as what they do every day.

Elections are about choices.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

New York voters agree on this: There is too much corruption in government - federal, state, and local.

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

Put a lawn sign on your lawn; go door to door for your candidate. Register people to vote. There's so much we can do through our voices and time. That's what flips elections.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states.