Voters Quotes - Page 18

Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law.

Byron York

Law, Obamacare, Notable

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That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working.

Byron York

Obamacare, Doe, Campaigns

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As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.

Edwin Meese

Integrity, Ohio, Law

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That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.

Edwin Meese

Law, Voting, Crow

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The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel apprehensive. Paychecks are flat, growth anemic, and people are worried about their children's prospects. Mr. Obama had a 38% approval on handling the economy in the Sept. 9 Fox News poll. In the Sept. 7 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 67% believe America is on the wrong track.

Karl Rove

Jobs, Children, Wall

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To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and debt. The only way to do this is by offering specific, persuasive ideas.

Karl Rove

Jobs, Winning, Offering

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No subject was more important in the 2014 elections than healthcare, and Republicans in Congress should waste no time in taking decisive action in response to the voters' demands. Obamacare has escalated costs, disrupted coverage, and introduced bad incentives throughout our healthcare system. Congress must repeal Obamacare and send the president a replacement package of reforms that protects freedom and focuses on the real problem with American healthcare - affordability.

Bobby Jindal

Real, Obamacare, Important

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'Elections have consequences,' President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president's party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.

Bobby Jindal

Jobs, Party, Office

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Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most voters’ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks.

Ramesh Ponnuru

Mind, Answers, Libertarian

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For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.

Robert Kuttner

Real, Struggle, Democracies Have

"Globalization and Its Critics". The American Prospect, Volume 12, July 2-16, 2001.

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The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Exercise, Judgement

"Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorensen, p. 15, 1956.

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Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

James Bovard

Taken, Two, Lunch

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Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

Reed Hundt

Tv News, Television, Tvs

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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Abraham Lincoln

War, Office, Favors

Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Aslan Maskhadov

Love, Peace, War

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Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Linda Chavez

Data, President, Literature

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The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

Joan Rivers

Funny, Awards, People

"Joan Rivers: the best of her career in clips and quotes" by Lilah Raptopoulos, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

Ralph Neas

Believe, President, Protection

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The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.

Neil Newhouse

Communication, Media, Data

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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

Lane Evans

Cutting, Issues, Names

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The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints.

Gary North

Christian, Biblical, Self

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People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

Michael Copps

Sorry, People, Memorial

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The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Party, Political, Morality

Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.

Mark Lilla

Country, New York, Party

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Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.

Steve King

Obamacare, Republican, Ran

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