All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing read more

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to read more

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't
invite me to dinner, but because read more

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't
invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the
airport there were such enormous potholes.

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.