Voters Quotes - Page 28

• Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

  Will Rogers

  Politics, Politician, Bandits

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• Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupidity, Would Be, Elements

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• In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Running, Party, Commitment

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• Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

  Joseph Stalin

  Vote

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• Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Ignorance, Stupid People, Obamacare

  "Advocate's Comments On ACA Now A Liability For Law's Supporters". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 9, 2014.

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

  Martha Plimpton

  Halloween, Years

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Needs, Finance

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.436, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

  Barack Obama

  Democracy, United States, Percent

  Source: time.com

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• The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.

  Nigel Farage

  Ukip, Work Out, Voting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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