It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

War in heaven makes no peace on earth.

Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!

We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Everything is design. Everything!

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.