Lewis F. Korns Quotes

You don't want to upset the people from California. They can outvote you.

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Even tiny special interests are made up of people whose votes are important to someone.

Money is influential in Congress, but votes will kick money’s ass any time they come up against each other.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

There’s a real fundamental need for us. You think we have a bad system now? Without us lobbyists, just see what kind of government we would have them

Those who have lobbyists are more likely to get what they want …. Those who have more money [to spend on lobbying] are more likely to prevail.

PACs represent thousands of little people.

One goal of empowerment is to gain influence in as many elections as possible.... Beware of plans that pack you into super-minority districts, that ghettoize minorities.

This is representative government, and Indians have very little political clout because for the most part, they don't vote. But white ranchers and farmers do vote.

Everyone else is represented in Washington by a powerful lobby ... But there is no lobby for the people.

In their hours of timidity the Congress becomes subservient to the importunities of organized minorities that the President comes more and more to stand as the champion of the rights of the whole country.

A majority of Senators placed on the Committee on Interstate Commerce were men whose sympathies were with the railroads.

Never in the history of American politics has there been a constituency so popular but with so little political clout as the American family.

We want political power in our country for our philosophy of life. This means we've got to get involved more and more in politics.

Rich people are powerful in wealth but few in votes.

Hardly a week goes by where somebody doesn't tell me that they won't support me unless I vote a certain way.

Everyone who lobbies represents someone’s particular point of view.

More and more, the Negro vote is becoming the decisive power in National politics. The Negro vote is the balance of power in so many important big states that one almost has to have the Negro vote to win a Presidential election.

Since the poor don’t vote, and the rich are too few to mention, the middle class chooses all by itself who runs the country.

Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.