Ed Blackwell Quotes
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.
I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
