Voters Quotes - Page 21

• In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Two, Public Opinion

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.581, Routledge

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• The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

  Dan Rather

  New York, Party, Sides

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• I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

  Alan Alda

  Religious, Lying, Government

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• From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Race, Class

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• And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Two, People, Giving

  "Bill O'Reilly: 'The white establishment is now the minority'" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way Democrats win, they have two big cities with huge concentrations of voters — and then overwhelm the rest of the state. All of a sudden, a Republican can win — and would probably routinely win — all but three or four congressional districts in Pennsylvania. It would turn it from a state Democrats rely on, as part of the base, to a state that they’re gonna lose under almost any scenario.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Cities, Two

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• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

  Danny Glover

  Summer, School, Becoming

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

  Tom Snyder

  Stupid, People, Want

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• When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.

  Quin Hillyer

  Real, Office, Facts

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• Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

  Charles M. Blow

  Apathy, Abdication, Civics

  "We Should Be in a Rage" by Charles M. Blow, www.nytimes.com. April 9, 2014.

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• The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Issues, Messages, Bans

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• The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it. That's what our open-borders policy is: It's about importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Home, Numbers

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• Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Believe, Men, Democracy

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media

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• All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Agriculture, Balance

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Opportunity, Feminist, Working Together

  "Gender Equality Is a Myth!". shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.

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• The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

  Dave Heineman

  Jobs, Best Job, Focus

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• They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

  Conrad Burns

  Iraq, Voter Turnout, Election

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• In the short-run, the market is a voting
  machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only
  money, not intelligence or emotional stability - but in the long-
  run, the market is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Emotional, Long

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• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.

  Adrian Goldsworthy

  Country, Party, Rome

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Data, California

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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• Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

  Robert Teeter

  Leadership, Style, Important

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• All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Second Amendment, Firsts

  "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

  Paul Weyrich

  President, Legacy, Conservative

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