Voters Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

  Frances Harper

  Thinking, Needs, Politics

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every voter became Narendra Modi.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful

  "As It Happened: India Election Results". blogs.wsj.com. May 16, 2014.

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• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Pockets, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• People wanted to vote for us but the mechanics of getting the voters to the polling stations we didnt have. We did not have the money most of all .

  Imran Khan

  People, Mechanic, Wanted

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• The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

  John Linder

  Country, Borders, Holding On

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• What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you alienate an individual who has the ability to attract a new generation of voters, who are already skeptical of your institution but are willing to at least listen through the vehicle of this individual and the words that he is saying? Why would you alienate them, get on the floor and not let them speak? Not have his name go up on the board and see the number of electoral votes that he receives? This is crazy!

  Michael Steele

  Crazy, Names, Numbers

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• I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Zero, Believe, Average

  "'Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You': Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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• My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mom, Kids, Location

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

  Kesha Rogers

  Telling The Truth

  "Interview: U.S. Senate candidate Kesha Rogers". Interview with Brett Wilkins, www.digitaljournal.com. May 22, 2014.

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• I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

  Alan Grayson

  Thinking, Should, Elected Officials

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

  Joseph Stalin

  People, Vote, Casts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

  Kevin Drum

  Impact, Bills, Republican

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• Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fate, Cities, America

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• During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

  Martha Plimpton

  Halloween, Years

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• I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Dave Barry

  Cancer, Florida, Numbers

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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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