Voters Quotes - Page 27

• I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

  Carly Fiorina

  Leadership, Thinking, Government

  "Carly Fiorina: The $59 million candidate in 2016" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2015.

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• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  Louie Gohmert

  Change, Leadership, Hopeful

  "Texas Rep. Gohmert to challenge Boehner for House speaker post". www.foxnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Issues, Support

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• I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, America, Trouble

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.

  Bill Nye

  Real, People, Climate

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• [Donald Trump] has specified - he has specified a contract with his voters that range - that has a lot of things on it. It ranges everything from repealing Obamacare to backing out of trade deals to undoing all the executive actions.

  Hari Sreenivasan

  Obamacare, Action, Range

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Campaigns, Want

  Interview with Leon Harri, www.politico.com. February 11, 2008.

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• Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

  Dave Barry

  Cancer, Florida, Numbers

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• I also think it's important not to demonize [Donald] Trump voters.

  Tucker Carlson

  Thinking, Important, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

  Tucker Carlson

  Important, Looks, Stereotype

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Stereotype, Columns, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Virtually everyone with a high-paying job in Washington, New York and Los Angeles demanded that voters not support Donald Trump for president but they did it anyway but we never saw it coming. Why is that?

  Tucker Carlson

  Jobs, New York, Support

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Important, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• More than half the U.S. population and more than half of the voters in this election were women. Among them, 42 percent voted for Donald Trump, 54 percent went for Hillary Clinton, essentially the reverse of how men voted.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Population, Half

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One out of five voters voted on this, and 70 percent of the issues that people voted on issues and they thought the media was inventing the controversy. It is no like they didn't hold him accountable - the Supreme Court is number one.

  Mary Matalin

  Media, Numbers, Issues

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote.

  Michel Martin

  Years, Election, Study

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.

  Sylvia Lim

  Mean, Thinking, Accountability

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• Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Campaigns, Donors

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• First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Swings, Political

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• he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

  Andrew Saul

  Teacher, Doctors, Patient

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• The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

  Edward Brooke

  White, Rights, Years

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• Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Iowa, Looks, Disappointing

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• But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist many other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign governments still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.

  Jon Stewart

  Government, Long, Perfect

  "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction". Book by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, 2004.

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• President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

  Jay Leno

  Years, President, American Voters

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