Vote Quotes - Page 39

• I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

  Geena Davis

  America, Sound, Ready

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• If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

  George Carlin

  Office, People, Done

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• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  Warren Beatty

  Issues, Engagement, Pushing

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

  Alveda King

  Giving, Pro Life, Senators

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• I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Country, Order, Issues

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• If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Government, Republican

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• Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

  William L. Shirer

  Popular Vote, America, Voting

  The New York Times, p. 36, December 29, 1969.

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• Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Children, Speak

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• I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

  2 Chainz

  Voting, Adults, Felons

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

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• The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Meaningful, Real, Years

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• No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Class, House

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• We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

  Denis Kearney

  History, Trying, Ifs

  "'Glenn Beck:' Shocking History of Unions in America". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2010.

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• If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Baby, Years, America

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• It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Fighting, Government

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.171, Penguin

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• I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

  Ken Blackwell

  Counting

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• I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

  Mario Balotelli

  Should, Interest, Should I

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• Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4.

  Brian Sandoval

  Cities, Generations, Passionate

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• In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

  Jonathan Swift

  Jobs, Cutting, Should Have

  'Verses on the Upright Judge'

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• It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Facts, Being A Woman

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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• In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

  Billy Graham

  Doe, Citizens, World

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• Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Voice

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• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?

  Tammy Baldwin

  Ideas, People, Mind

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• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  Victoria Woodhull

  House, United States, Citizens

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• The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

  James L. Buckley

  Media, Campaigns, Kind

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

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• If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

  Mary Landrieu

  Bills, Tomorrow, Ifs

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