Ballots Quotes - Page 10

• Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Battle, Moral, Standards

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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• It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.

  Tony Benn

  People, Political, Democracy

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• If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.

  Jon Stewart

  Guy, Want, Arms

  "The Daily Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1996 - ).

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• Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

  Bob Schaffer

  Party, Light, Doe

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• Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Justice, Progress, Next Steps

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• A town in Upstate New York is being accused of being biased 'cause they sent out absentee ballots that say 'Barack Osama.' Today they apologized and printed new ballots that say 'Barack Hussein Osama.'

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, Today, Towns

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• On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Election, Disappointing

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• In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

  John McCain

  Views, Should, Candidates

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• I am a member of Congress. And I do have a choice as to whether or not to continue as DNC chair and be neutral and do everything I can and put in the kind of time and hours and days on the road that I do to make sure that we can elect Democrats up and down the ballot and elect a Democrat as president. Or I could not be chair and go work for the candidate of my choice. I`m choosing to remain as chair so that I can fight like hell to make sure that the jokers on the other side of the aisle aren`t able to get hold of the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, White, Choices

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

  Laura Kuenssberg

  Promise, Return, Tomorrow

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• I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

  John Cornyn

  Views, Numbers, People

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But they don't love her like they loved Bill [Clinton], and they don't love her like they loved Barack [Obama], and they don't love her like they love Michelle [Obama]. The love they have for her is related to the fact that right next to her name is a big capital D on the ballot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Names, Speech

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not being democratic. In some countries regional leaders are appointed from the centre and in others they are elected. In Russia, the president is elected through direct secret ballot, and in the United States, the president is elected through a system of electoral colleges.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, College, Russia

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• You aren't just voting for the president. So many issues that affect your everyday life are decided locally on that ballot as well. So go get that god damn sticker. Your country needs you.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Country, Issues, Voting

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• In Halberstram's fun house, television elected John F. Kennedy in 1960 (presumably Richard J. Daley and his precinct captains were at home on election night watching the Cook County ballots being counted on television).

  Edwin Diamond

  Fun, Home, Night

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• If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote.

  Dolores Huerta

  Names, Organization, People

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're pouring money into capturing the Senate and the House of Representatives, and state Houses across the country.

  Jane Mayer

  Country, House, Pouring

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Campaigns, Presidency

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, America, Democracy

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, July, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think, it was like 30 million dollars the Libertarians talk about that it cost them to get on the ballot. We don't have 30 million dollars. We're a people powered campaign.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, People, Dollars

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Our Facebook went off the charts and volunteers poured into our campaigns and actually helped us achieve the ballot access status that we have now on the ballot in just about 48 states and this has continued.

  Jill Stein

  Volunteer, Campaigns, Achieve

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The Green Party provides the infrastructure, kind of the culture of watchdogging the electoral bureaucracy, and how you participate, how you get on the ballot, stuff like that which is very difficult to do unless you have billions of dollars.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Stuff, Dollars

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Water

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Essence, Choices, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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