Vote Quotes - Page 15

• I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.

  David Duke

  White

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• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Black, Activity

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• I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

  Connie Willis

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

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• America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.

  David Frum

  America, Knows

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• Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

  John Fugelsang

  War, Iraq, Relief

  FaceBook post by John Fugelsang from Jan 02, 2013

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• Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

  Juvenal

  Military, Men, Long Ago

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• Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

  Peter Breggin

  Presidential, Decision, Disease

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• My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have the change to see it. I hope the guerrilla understands that the time has come to leave this 50-year confrontation behind; that the time has come to change from bullets to votes, from weapons to argumentations; that the time has come for them to continue their struggle, but within democracy.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Children, Struggle

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• I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

  Mike DeWine

  Children, Issues, Groups

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• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Ideas, Essentials

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• It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.

  Stuart Wilde

  Crazy, Feet, People

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Philadelphia, People

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

  John Jay Hooker

  Presidential, Benches, Levels

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• Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

  Larry Craig

  Thinking, President, Stronger

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• Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election]

  Yogi Berra

  Texas, Important, Campaigns

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• Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

  Toby Keith

  Thinking, Should Have, Stuff

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• I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.

  Larry Norman

  Wonder, Ifs

  Song: The Great American Novel, Album: Only Visiting This Planet

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• I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

  Ken Blackwell

  College, December, Winner

  "Keith Olbermann's Interview With Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell". "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.onlisareinsradar.com. November 29, 2004.

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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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• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  Adam McKay

  Powerful

  "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

  John Fund

  Men, Views, Democracy

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• We are just interested in dealing with the people were paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

  David Neeleman

  Thinking, Talking, Law

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.

  Konstantin Pobedonostsev

  Spring, Military, Real

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• Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Laughter, Book

  Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.

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• I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

  Brian Lamb

  Party, Election, Ideologues

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