Vote Quotes - Page 8

• Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

  Paul Weyrich

  Two, Thirds, Nations

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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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• 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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• There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Democracy, Regression

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.48, Editions Didier Millet

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• Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Fashion, Variables, Uniforms

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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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• Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay

  Khaleda Zia

  Enough, Vote For Me

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• I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, British, Convinced

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• If it went on the ballot in Colorado,
  I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  Pete Coors

  Drinking, Age, Colorado

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

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• I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  Patricia Ireland

  Florida, Issues, African American

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• A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Might, Reason, Educated

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• People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.

  Zach Braff

  People, Leader, Asking

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• Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Adults

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• I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Strong, Commitment, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

  Saint Basil

  Letting Go, Doctrine, Favors

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Differences, Giving

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• When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

  Ernest Poole

  Children, More Money

  Ernest Poole (2015). “His Family”, p.111, Booklassic

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• When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ivy, League, Splits

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• If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again so that those liberties are preserved for future generations. And, if we're ignorant, we won't even know when government infringes on our liberties. Moreover, we'll happily cast our votes for those who'd destroy our liberties.

  Walter E. Williams

  Sacrifice, Government, Historical

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• I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Years, Iraq

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• There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Responsibility, Exercise

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• For me the beginning of all true progress in the woman question lies in women's right to vote...The strong the emphasis on the difference between the sexes, the clearer the need for the specific representation of women.

  Hedwig Dohm

  Strong, Sex, Lying

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• God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Promise, Authority

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote? SAMPLER”, p.15, Moody Publishers

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• When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Blood, People

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.99, Moody Publishers

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