Voters Quotes - Page 14

• You know, that's the very least that the American voters can expect is that when you're running for President that you outline what you would do and what you would do differently from this - from the President of the United States.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, President, United States

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• Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that matter to them to cast their vote.

  Steven J. Law

  Keys, Years, Issues

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

  Mara Liasson

  Campaigns, Veteran, Republican

  "Obama, Romney Pull Campaign Ads On Sept. 11". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

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• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  Mara Liasson

  Children, Support, Decision

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• While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

  Mara Liasson

  Home, College, Office

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• I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

  Mia Love

  Thinking, Independent Voters, People

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• History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.

  Michael Moritz

  Passion, Reform, Betrayed

  "Ending Piggybank Politics: Checkbook Balancing in San Francisco" by Michael Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

  Dick Morris

  Communication, Thinking, Views

  "Profiting from politics" by Elizabeth Wasserman, www.cnn.com. November 19, 1999.

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• It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Littles, Next

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• EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Swings, Years, Cynical

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• American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Dollars, Bottles

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• Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

  Judy Woodruff

  Midwest, Democrat

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• In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

  Judy Woodruff

  Effort, African American, American Voters

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• "Perceive" is the word that became in the '72 campaign what "charisma" was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. "Perceive" is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Keys, Differences, Campaigns

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That's sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn't trying to suppress a vote. I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Party, Israel

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Men, Mind

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

  John Green

  Swings, Catholic, Hierarchy

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• As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

  David Dixon

  Support, Effort, Voting

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• Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Cutting

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• One thing that has become clear over the last several days is that we no longer have 135 choices to make. It's really one choice likely to emerge from question number two, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that leaves the voters with a clear choice. They can retain Gray Davis as governor, or they can elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew from Pete Wilson to run the governor's office.

  Gray Davis

  Running, Two, Numbers

  "Should I stay or should I withdraw?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2003.

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• The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

  Adam Rickitt

  Keys, Numbers, Email

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• The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Past, Average

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• It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

  Karen Hughes

  Philosophy, Numbers, Gender Gap

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• I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

  Pat Toomey

  Running, Thinking, President

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• There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

  Bob Schaffer

  Hands, Touching, Guarantees

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