Electorate Quotes

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. - David Attenborough

Where there were challenges, the ANC committed itself to make the necessary changes. Our campaigning paid off. We were not bothered much about all the attacks about service delivery in certain areas. There has been a strong statement by the electorate that they are happy with the ANC. - Smuts Ngonyama

When I make a decision, I'm going to be applauded or rejected by the electorate once every six years. There's an immediate response to any decision that a coach makes, and it's either the booing or applauding of those people in the audience. - Charles Grassley

What you see is the bureaucracy doing the bidding of the representatives, which are doing the bidding of the electorate. - Robert Toll

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. - Susan Faludi

We've had tax cut proposals, one after the other, which is like saying to the American people, 'Would you like the government to give you some money,' and they're not popular. People are saying we don't need the money, we'd rather do something else with it, we'd rather accomplish some public purposes. Well, Bush is trying to hold the Republican Party together and sell it to a fairly skeptical electorate. - Bill Schneider

We're taking what we learned from the Dean campaign and are applying it to a state. If we do our job right, when election time comes around, we will have a much more engaged electorate. - Bobby Clark

Well, I think this will be a tough election. Anybody that thinks that they own the electorate is wrong. - Michael Bloomberg

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time. - Robert Teeter

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically, where we have an informed electorate and accountable officials. To do that we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. - Tim Berners-Lee