Vote Quotes - Page 40

• Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

  George Takei

  Citizens, Duty, Galaxy

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• The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Matter, Lasts, Polls

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• To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  People, Purpose, Election

  "Representative Harold Ford and Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart on the latest on the presidential recount in Florida". CNN's Crossfire Chat, www.cnn.com. November 22, 2000.

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• You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

  Jesse Jackson

  Men, Black, Healthcare

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• The easy road in Olympia is a yes vote. That's the easy road in Olympia. The easy road in Olympia is not carrying the banner for freedom and liberty. The easy road in Olympia is worrying about getting reelected. The easy road in Olympia is going along to get along.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Worry, Insightful

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• Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hard Work, Needs, Republican

  "Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney’s ‘Latino Problem", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

  Warren Beatty

  Gnarly, Feet, People

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

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• The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, Doe, Roles

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

  Will Durant

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

  George R. R. Martin

  Art, People, Voting

  GamePro Magazine Interview, April 08, 2003.

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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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• 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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• 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 American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

  Rosario Dawson

  Here And There, News, Great News

  "The Future Has Voted" by Rosario Dawson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

  Carl Icahn

  Fighting, People, Tyranny

  "Hertz is on its Way to a New Driver" by Simon Lack, www.businessinsider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Citizenship, Standing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ideas, Mind, Literature

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• If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

  John Ensign

  Disenfranchised, Ifs

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• Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

  Brad Pitt

  Live Life, America, Desire

  "Brad Pitt comes out against gay marriage ban proposal" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Law, Long, Mind

  Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Education Association of the United States (1979*). “Building networks for nonviolent social change: report of the Fourth Annual Summer Institute on Nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-August 2, 1980 [i.e. 1979]”

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• France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Giving Up, Views

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• I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

  Laurent Fabius

  Strong, Years, Want

  "Chirac allies storm ahead in poll". cnn.com. June 10, 2002.

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• If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

  Chuck Grassley

  Couple, Moving, Way

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• Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, People, Voting

  "Our Coverage of New York Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage" by Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Running, Sheep, Names

  "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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