Vote Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Black, Healthcare

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• I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

  James Denton

  Choices, Republican

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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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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• If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote.

  Youngme Moon

  Unique, Lasts, Should

  Youngme Moon (2010). “Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd”, p.34, Crown Business

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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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• 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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• Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

  Milton Friedman

  Technique, Politics, Voters

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1985). “Tyranny of the status quo”

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• It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.

  Suzy Kassem

  Elephants, Doe, Lions

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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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• The easy road in Olympia is a yes vote. That's the easy road in Olympia. The easy road in Olympia is not carrying the banner for freedom and liberty. The easy road in Olympia is worrying about getting reelected. The easy road in Olympia is going along to get along.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Worry, Insightful

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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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• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  Barbara Lee

  Military, War, Years

  "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

  Will Durant

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

  Ken Mehlman

  Party, Thinking, White

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• Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.

  Ofir Drori

  War, Fate, Gun

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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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• Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.

  Jon Stewart

  Night, America, Black

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• Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, Campaigns, Hussein

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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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