Paul Weyrich Quotes

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• They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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  Voting, Want, Matter

  "The Hidden Election" by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 1981.

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• Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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  Christian, Country, Government

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• We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

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  Talking, America, Scary

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• Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

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  People, Democracy, Scales

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• For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

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  "Questions for CAIR" by Paul Weyrich, www.newsmax.com. January 21, 2004.

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• The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

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  Real, Enemy, Mindset

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• Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

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  Spiritual, Leader, Scary

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• They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now.

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  Want, Vote

  Remarks to the Religious Roundtable in August 1980. "The Hidden Election: Politics and Economics in the 1980 Presidential Campaign". Book by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 1981.

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• Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

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  Quarters, Thirds, Sean

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• Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

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  Npr, Politics, Radio

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• What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

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  Christian, School, Mind

  "Audacity and irony" by Angelia Wilson, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

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  Average, Voters, Seven

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• The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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  People, President, Serious

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• Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

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  Media, Ideological, Advertisers

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• Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

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  Self, Electorate

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• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

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  Song, Media, Giving

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• Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about.

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  Thinking, Needs, Conservative

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• I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'

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  Writing, Men, Doe

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• The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

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  Radio, Conservative, Reason

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• Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

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  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

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  Country, Islamic, Opportunity

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• Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

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  Judging, Understanding, Roles

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• Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

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  Children, Television, Dominant

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• Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

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  Self, Electorate

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• Politicians often lie.

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  Lying, Politician

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