Electorate Quotes - Page 2

• One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

  Olympia Snowe

  Blue, Color, America

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• A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Depends

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• There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

  John Prescott

  Order, Blair, Said

  "As David Cameron poses with blacked up dancers - the worst political PR blunders" by Simon Keegan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

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• I think the Democratic electorate is similarly very energized. In both cycles we have new folks coming into the system who had previously been outside of the system, who may not even be Democrats. In both cycles we have a very well-known candidate who understands the process and a candidate who had to learn the rules.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Thinking, May, Well Known

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

  Jane Mayer

  Choices, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Honesty, Government, People

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• The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

  Marc Faber

  Government, Media, Law

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• We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Jobs, Thinking

  "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

  Unknown

  Freedom, Two, Lunch

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• Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

  Jay Griffiths

  Voting, Democracy, Vote

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Command Not, Order

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• The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.

  Lindsey Graham

  Believe, Gun, Ideas

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• [T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

  Karl Rove

  Issues, Notable, Economy

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• Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

  Will Self

  Political, Stripes, Conviction

  "Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2013.

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• The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Children, Silly

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• I know very well that the political classes have spread fear among the electorate: Without the euro, the sun will cease shining, the rivers will stop flowing, we will enter an ice age.

  Marine Le Pen

  Ice, Class, Rivers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Believe, Men, Politician

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• My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

  Wendy Harmer

  Dream, Women, Two

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• Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

  Derek Wilson

  Leader, Experts, Rothschild

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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• The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Firsts, Exit, Disappointing

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• The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded electorate... The reason for this strategy is overwhelmingly apparent: no scientific case can be made for the theories they advance.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Political, Lobbying, Movement

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• It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

  William Galston

  Stupid, Years, Two

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• Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

  Don Aitkin

  Cynical, Democracy, Election

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• Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

  John Podhoretz

  Spiritual, Jobs, Insulting

  "The real trouble with Rick" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. February 21, 2012.

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