Voters Quotes - Page 30

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

Andrew Young

Rights, Long, Voting

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When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

Gary Bauer

Believe, Issues, Needs

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People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Government, People, Wish

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People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.

Thomas Sowell

Issues, People, Political

"Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

John Perry Barlow

Art, Intelligent, Men

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Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Cynthia McKinney

Law, Voter Turnout, Voter Id

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My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Kathryn Lasky

Mother, Rights, Issues

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Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

Chuck Todd

Believe, Thinking, Bipartisan

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Voters' memories will fade some.

Nate Silver

Memories, Fades

"Romney Blasts Obama on the Middle East; Nate Silver on Horserace; Romney's Surge with Women; George Zimmerman's Mother Speaks; Alabama Student Killed". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2012.

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In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Bob Beauprez

Stars, Victory, Canvas

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The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

Jay Leno

War, Hero, Mean

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When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

Christine Pelosi

Thinking, Rights, Voting

"Democrats Push Voter Protection While GOP Shout Voter Fraud in a Crowded Polling Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.

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Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.

Hamid Karzai

Brother, Wife, Scary

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I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

Seth Rogen

Oscars, Taste, Assumption

"Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.

Robert Musil

Party, Ideas, Community

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

George Bernard Shaw

Voting, Liberty, Males

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Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known nor cared whether I was the oldest or the youngest daughter of Methuselah, or whether my bonnet came from the Ark or from Worth's.

Susan B. Anthony

Daughter, Fashion, Editors

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.3302, e-artnow

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You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Years, Two, Gentleman

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan Brownell Anthony (1872). “Memorial of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Elizabeth L. Bladen, Olympia Brown, Susan B. Anthony, and Josephine L. Griffing, to the Congress of the United States, and the Arguments Thereon Before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate”, p.19

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... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Men, Differences, Numbers

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1935). “Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth”

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The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.

Stephen Colbert

Memories, Media, Foam

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I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Sojourner Truth

Book, Reading, Men

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Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

Michael Kinsley

Iowa, Democracy, United States

"Kinsley: The Coddled American Voter". articles.latimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.

Garry Wills

Ambition, Thoughtful, Ideas

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Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Charles M. Blow

Passion, Want, Way

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There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Mark McKinnon

Winning, Perception, Debate

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