Electorate Quotes - Page 4

• As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

  Enoch Powell

  Clever, People, Important

  Enoch Powell's Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 19, 1968.

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• Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, Fundamentals, World

  Source: collider.com

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• The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Order, Voice, Weakness

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS Newshour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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• The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Exercise, Goal, Political

  "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror". Book by Michael Ignatieff, April 2004.

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• We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.

  Rick Perry

  Political, Purpose, Eras

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways.

  Michael Fullilove

  President, May, Way

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, Self, Succeed

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover”

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• Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Law, Roots, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred -Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, People, Democracy

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Differences, People, Community

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Self, Civilization, Discovery

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Democracy, Needs, Firsts

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

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• It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.

  James Fallows

  People, Trump, Cases

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

  Paul Goodman

  Media, Organization, Phony

  Paul Goodman (1962). “The Community of Scholars, 1962”

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• In Utah, where the states` Mormon GOP electorate is especially unfavorable to [Donald] Trump.

  Chris Hayes

  Utah, States, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

  John I. Jenkins

  Attitude, Anxiety, Doubt

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters.

  Mara Liasson

  Couple, Winning, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It`s hard to beat something with nothing. Republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of the electorate which is descending on GOP town halls and these folks want answers.

  Chuck Todd

  Country, Feelings, Towns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's going to have to come to a point where politicians in their own political self-interest think it's safe and advantageous to come out on the side of drug law reform. Right now, they don't care about drug safety. They just care about their standing with the electorate.

  Rick Steves

  Thinking, Self, Law

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

  Preston Manning

  Decision, Leader, Political

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• Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

  Robert Kuttner

  War, Democracy, Criminals

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• Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

  Lawrence Block

  New York, Cities, Democracy

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Afterthoughts”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Social Values, Government, 80s And 90s

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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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 know it's - this is this insane analysis. Hillary Clinton lost the election because her ideas were bad. She didn't fit the electorate. She ignored states that she shouldn't have, and Donald Trump was the change agent, OK?

  Reince Priebus

  Ideas, Insane, Analysis

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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