Vote Quotes - Page 26

• I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

  James A. Garfield

  Tables, Multiplication

  Letter to H. Austin on February 04, 1874. "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allan Peskin. Chapter 17, 1978.

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• I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dream, Powerful

  "Nightmare in La-la Land". www.espn.com. August 17, 2003.

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• Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Fall, Way

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

  William J. Clinton

  Winning, Thinking, Gaps

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• I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Country, Perseverance, Philosophy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.

  Giovanna Cau

  Girl, Country, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Party, People, Moments

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

  Brian Redman

  Morning, Sleep, Lobbyists

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• It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Political, Voters, Qualified

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.421, Library of America

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• Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

  Loung Ung

  Support, Voting, Speak

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• A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Giving, Voting

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.138, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.

  David Letterman

  New York, Mean, Cities

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• We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of them—most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulation—they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.

  David Gerrold

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Beautiful, Attitude, Years

  "Unbought and Unbossed". Book by Shirley Chisholm, 1970.

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• I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Jesus, Believe, Church

  "CNN still fixated on Apocalypse predictors, still ignoring alleged invitation to White House, Capitol Hill". "Paula Zahn Now", www.mediamatters.org. July 31, 2006.

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• The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Lying, Epic

  Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”, Lulu.com

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• Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Wind, Names, Leader

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• You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world

  Austin O'Malley

  Views, Voting, Facts

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• Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.

  C. Wright Mills

  Kings, Divine Right, People

  "Character and Social Structure". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1953.

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• I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  "Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

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• Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Thinking, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

  Elizabeth May

  Reality, Blue, Giving

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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