Vote Quotes - Page 22

• We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

  James P. Hoffa

  Impact, Race, Organization

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• Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

  Adrian Rogers

  Majority Vote, Decision, Always Wrong

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• It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote.

  Metiria Turei

  Millions

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• Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun second term drinking game, chug a beer every time you hear the phrase 'contentious but futile protest vote by democrats.' By the time Jeb Bush is elected, you'll be so wasted you won't even notice the war in Syria.

  Jon Stewart

  Fun, War, Drinking

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• I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mean, Awards, Talking

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• If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

  John F. Kerry

  Believe, Nuclear, Hussein

  "War issue presents challenge for Dem candidates" by Jill Lawrence, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 11, 2003.

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• In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the
  law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Law, Two, Feet

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIV, 1835.

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• There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

  Emma Goldman

  No Hope, Right To Vote

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.121, 谷月社

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• Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

  Nathan Deal

  Sunday, Church, Republican

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• Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Land, America

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.53, David C Cook

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• I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

  Mike Lee

  Thinking, Ceilings, Generations

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• As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

  Jason Mraz

  Citizens, Oligarchy, Ifs

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• When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.

  Bow Wow

  Impact, People, Decision

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• The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wrestling, Wwe, Two

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• Not even my parents know how I vote.

  Shepard Smith

  Parent, Know How, Knows

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• Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.

  Alice Cooper

  Enough

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• I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

  Eazy-E

  Republican, Democrat

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• A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

  William J. Clinton

  Assault Weapons, Democracy, Harder

  "Bill Clinton: 'A Great Democracy Doesn’t Make It Harder To Vote Than To Buy An Assault Weapon'", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2013.

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• A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Law, Alabama, Minorities

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures”? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Fighting, Elderly, Office

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• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, Differences, People

  "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• There is a liberal bias. It's demonstrable. You look at some statistics. About 85 percent of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democratic, they have for a long time. There is a, particularly at the networks, at the lower levels, among the editors and the so-called infrastructure, there is a liberal bias.

  Evan Thomas

  Editors, White, Long

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• No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

  Chuck Hagel

  Records, Belief, Individual

  "Defense Nominee Hagel Defends His Record in Senate" by Donna Cassata, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.

  Jay Severin

  Mean, Winning, Ideas

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• ... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

  Dick Morris

  Top 10, Income, Politics

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