I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
Andrew: What do you need a fake I.D. for? Brian: So I can vote.
When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.
Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.
You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
In order to work for Chrysler, you are required to join the union, in this case UAW. There's no choice - it's a union shop - the employees voted to have it that way, and in America, that's the way it is.
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
