Election Day Quotes - Page 3

• Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

  Robert Breault

  Office, Political, Trying

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• Voting is a civic sacrament.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Political, Voting, Politics

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

  Henry Clay

  Trust, Government, People

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig, March 5, 1829-December 31, 1836”, p.42, University Press of Kentucky

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• The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Government, People

  Second Speech on Foote's Resolution, U.S. Senate, 26 Jan. 1830 See Lincoln 42; Theodore Parker 1; Theodore Parker 2

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• It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Stay home on Election Day ... for the sake of the nation

  Sean Hannity

  Home, Sake, Election

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• If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

  Al Yankovic

  Political, Paper, Toilets

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• Congress voted for tougher laws on corporations. So now when a corporation buys a senator, they need a receipt.

  Jay Leno

  Law, Political, Needs

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• Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Children, Years, House

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• Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Giving, Political

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• One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

  Colin Powell

  Expression, Political, Needs

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• The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

  Wael Ghonim

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

  "Inside the Egyptian revolution". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Political, Election

  "The Candidate: How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois Everyman". www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2004.

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• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Horse, Men

  Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

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• Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

  Rupert Murdoch

  Perfection, Choices, Political

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2012

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• If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

  Derek Sivers

  Motivation, Inspiration, Nuts

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• We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

  Jay Leno

  America, Issues, Political

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• Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

  James G. Stavridis

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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• We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Motivation, Inspiration, Government

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• Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

  Ivan Krastev

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

  Jo Ann Dearing

  Political, Election, Congressman

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• If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our way out. We can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned, American way. We're going to invent our way out, working together.

  Donald Sadoway

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day.

  Matthew Dowd

  Fall, Successful, Reality

  "GOP memo predicts drop in Bush poll numbers" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2003.

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