Vote Quotes - Page 30

• From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

  Rick Scott

  Justice, Citizens, Want

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 12, 2012.

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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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• There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Military, California

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.5, PublicAffairs

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• I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my enemy, I'm always watching what gold is doing', we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you're a central banker or one of the congressmen or senators, watch what gold is doing because this is a no-confidence vote in fiscal and dollar policy.

  Rick Santelli

  Thinking, Enemy, Gold

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• For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.

  Arthur Machen

  Wise, Heart, Winning

  Arthur Machen (2016). “The Terror: Machen's Collection”, p.37, VM eBooks

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• I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Believe, Issues, Abortion

  "Alan Simpson Fires Off Angry Letter To HuffPost" By Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2012.

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• The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

  Bev Perdue

  Powerful, Most Powerful

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• Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Nice, Fall

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.416, Vintage

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• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Black, Activity

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• I'd like to have a vote on it at the November [owners'] meetings. There's no reason why we can't announce who we intend to sell the team to in conjunction with signing the lease. But it's very important that we sign a lease contemplated by the stadium agreement. We continue to negotiate and hope that this will quickly be resolved.

  Bob DuPuy

  Team, Agreement, Important

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• The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.

  Neal Boortz

  Country, Dog, Drs

  "Rush Limbaugh Is Not Alone" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Levels, Persons, Administrative

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• The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.

  Benjamin Carson

  Class, America, Community

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• In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Determination, Government, Self

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• However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stupid, Doe, May

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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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• This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at airports. We're changing the Constitution out of fear. We spend all our time looking up each other's dresses. Fear's the only issue the Republican Party has. Vote for them, or the terrorists will win. That's not what Reagan was about. I hate to think about our soldiers over in Iraq fighting for a country that's slipping away.

  Merle Haggard

  Country, Hate, Party

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

  David Duke

  White

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• The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.

  Brian Boitano

  Motivational, Perseverance, Athlete

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

  Geezer Butler

  Running, World, Matter

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jingles, Thrill, Bells

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1966). “The Unmaking of a Mayor”, Viking Adult

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• When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Popular Vote, Minorities, Tiny

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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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• 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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• 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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