Vote Quotes - Page 21

• But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

  Frank Miller

  Being Real, Trying, Realistic

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

  Peter Welch

  Party, Favors, Casting

  "Playing chicken with U.S. economy". www.politico.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% – a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe they’ve had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.

  James Morcan

  Lying, Party, Believe

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• It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

  Pete Sampras

  Believe, Athlete, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.

  Paul Broun

  Reason, Holy, Congressman

  "Republican Congressman says evolution is 'lie from hell'" by Guy Adams, www.independent.co.uk. October 8, 2012.

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.

  Antonin Scalia

  Thinking, Order, Law

  "Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co., 491 U.S. 1". supreme.justia.com. June 15, 1989.

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• I'd rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.

  Annie Lennox

  Party, Believe, Thinking

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.

  Saxby Chambliss

  President, Might, Filibuster

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• I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

  James Dobson

  Circumstances, Mccain

  "Dobson: 'I Would Not Vote for John McCain Under Any Circumstances'" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. January 15, 2007.

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• People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.

  Tom Tancredo

  White, People, House

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 05, 2010.

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• The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

  Neal Boortz

  Party, House, Way

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• It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Country, War, People

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• As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.

  David Villa

  Years, Doubt, Best Year

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• At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

  Ian MacKaye

  Country, War, America

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• The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

  James Hansen

  Talking, Process, Democratic

  "Leading climate scientist: 'democratic process isn't working'" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.

  Richard L. Hanna

  People, Needs, Matter

  "Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Crush, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1040, e-artnow

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• Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.

  Mark Hertsgaard

  Responsibility, Government, Names

  Mark Hertsgaard (2003). “The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World”, p.211, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

  William G. Boykin

  Morning, Men, White

  "How born-again George became a man on a mission" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Dollars, Bottles

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• I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

  Judy Woodruff

  School, Thinking, People

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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 Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Florida, Hands, United States

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• Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

  Warren Beatty

  Gnarly, Feet, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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