Voters Quotes - Page 2

• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  Ogden Nash

  Hurt, Commitment, Political

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• The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

  James Bryce

  Needs, Culture, Mediocrity

  James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Usa, Doe

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• I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

  Jesse Ventura

  Law, Nascar Racing, Wish

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• Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Democracies Have, Government, Democracy

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• Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Years, Politician, Said

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.813, Best Books on

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• I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

  Deborah Pryce

  Thinking, Political, Listening

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• I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

  David R. Brower

  Writing, Hands, League

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• The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, Risk, Election

  "Supreme Court allows Texas voter ID law for now" by Jason Hanna, Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2014.

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• The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

  Jose Marti

  Trust, Delicate Life, Honor

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• Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

  Ron Fournier

  Vision, Speech, Process

  "Why Obama's Great Speech Fell Flat" by Ron Fournier, www.theatlantic.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Independent Voters, Needs, Stuff

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  David Letterman

  War, Thinking, Appreciate

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• A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

  Anne Lamott

  Dark, Light, Together

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• I think the voters can make up their own minds.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Mind

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• We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Outlook On Life, Needs

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Florida, President

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• I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Florida, Independent Voters

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• The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Different, Unemployment, Way

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• Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, Negative, Campaigns

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• One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

  Ron Fournier

  Father, Skins, Waste

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• The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

  Ron Fournier

  White, Broken, House

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• This is Romney's biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he's not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.

  Ron Fournier

  Political, Skins, Weakness

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• You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

  Ron Fournier

  Home, Leader, Political

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• The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

  Al Franken

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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