Vote Quotes - Page 40

• Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Eye, Degrees

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

  Moby

  Children, Slavery, Factories

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

  Elizabeth Warren

  Winning, Men, Speaks Out

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Stress, Reading

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

  Dave Barry

  People, Want, Libertarian

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.

  Tony Abbott

  Sex, Opportunity, Sight

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Enjoy, Occasions

  Source: www.itv.com

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• Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.

  Otis Moss III

  Community, Voting, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The most important thing is who counts the votes.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Important, Important Things

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

  Agnes Varda

  Two, People, Black

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

  Steve Israel

  Argument, Congress, Members

  "Rep. Steve Israel Condemns Use Of Iran Nuclear Deal As A 'Cheap, Partisan Stunt'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 11, 2015.

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• There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.

  Dacia Maraini

  Girl, Country, Rights

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, America, Years

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.

  Costa-Gavras

  Strong, Latin, Government

  Source: progressive.org

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• The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over decisions affecting them. If workers sat on the board of directors of democratically operated self-managed enterprises, they wouldn't vote for the wildly unequal distribution of profits to benefit a few and for cutbacks for the many.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Self, Decision, Voting

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Keys, Decision, Arriving

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

  Robert Byrd

  Office, Political, Term Limits

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• These guys sit in the Senate - even though he misses most of the votes, by the way - but he sits in the Senate and listens to this stuff all the time.I'm out working, producing jobs all over the place and building a great company.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Guy, Missing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• But the way they phrase those things when you get to the voting booth, you don't know which way you're voting, cause it's like, "Should we not eat unbabies not on this not day?" .... So you vote no on it, and then it's on the news the next day. "Well, 74% of Americans have decided it's time to eat babies."

  Kyle Cease

  Funny, Baby, Next Day

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• The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published
  decision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simply
  in effect expressing a view that while I don't particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming.
  vote, or maybe there were other reasons. But
  my decision not to sign doesn't have to be followed by
  everybody from that point on

  George Deukmejian

  Views, Law, Decision

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Majority, Public Opinion, Gaps

  Source: collider.com

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• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Pockets, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Eight, Government, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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