Vote Quotes - Page 31

• For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

  Michael Medved

  Winning, Election, Reassuring

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Philadelphia, People

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

  Mike DeWine

  Children, Issues, Groups

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• My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all Colombians to have the change to see it. I hope the guerrilla understands that the time has come to leave this 50-year confrontation behind; that the time has come to change from bullets to votes, from weapons to argumentations; that the time has come for them to continue their struggle, but within democracy.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Dream, Children, Struggle

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• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Ideas, Essentials

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• Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Hands, People

  "The people's pottage".

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• Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

  Larry Craig

  Thinking, President, Stronger

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• It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.

  Stuart Wilde

  Crazy, Feet, People

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.

  Peter Breggin

  Presidential, Decision, Disease

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• Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

  John Fund

  Men, Views, Democracy

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• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  DeForest Soaries

  People, Voting, Machines

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• In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.

  Konstantin Pobedonostsev

  Spring, Military, Real

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• We are just interested in dealing with the people were paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

  David Neeleman

  Thinking, Talking, Law

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

  Emir Kusturica

  Cities, People, Democracy

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

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• I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

  Brian Lamb

  Party, Election, Ideologues

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• I played ball for the Senators, Rangers, Indians, and Yankees in the ’70′s and ’80′s. Marvin Miller was a hero in our household during that time. The players today may not even know who he is but they have much to be grateful for to this fine man. It took me ten years to make what many players make in a couple days now. He will definitely have my vote and my wife’s as well.

  Toby Harrah

  Couple, Hero, Grateful

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• They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.

  James L. Buckley

  Lying, Understanding, Different

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.247, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Laughter, Book

  Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.

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• What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

  James L. Buckley

  People, Appreciate, Office

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Democracy, Important, Minorities

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• History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

  Gwen Ifill

  Powerful, People, Needs

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• You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Novelists, Your Favorite

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• Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

  Jay Griffiths

  Voting, Democracy, Democratic

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

  Eric Massa

  Running, House, Hawaii

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• How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

  Paul Weyrich

  Gun, Issues, Abortion

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