Voters Quotes - Page 34

• I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Believe, Mean

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Class, White

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

  Theodore White

  Past, Election, Individual

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.

  Mark Steyn

  Party, Simple, Community

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• Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.

  Ron Fournier

  Perception, Care, Bills

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• Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Taken, Years, Political

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• In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Europe, America, Cost

  "All (Green) Thumbs". www.nationalreview.com. June 1, 2012.

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• If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Ideas, People

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Stupidity, American Voters

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• Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Men, Expression, Creative

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.

  Dana Goldstein

  Children, School, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

  Zephyr Teachout

  People, Giving, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think if there's anything that's important today, it's credibility with the voter, because the voter is tired of being sold a bill of goods.

  John Kasich

  Tired, Thinking, Important

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• If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate. We win governors' chairs up and down the line. So I believe if you want to retain the White House, if you want to see Democrats do well across the board, I think our campaign is the one that creates the large voter turnout and helps us win.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

  Josh Earnest

  Growing Up, Doors, Parent

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• My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

  Josh Earnest

  Parent, Democracy, Citizens

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• I honestly believe that once people begin to understand what's at stake here, that we have a chance here not just to make our country great, but greater than it's ever been, and we have a plan to do it, I think is going to begin to influence a lot of voters, not to mention coalesce those maybe who were with someone else first around us.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You have got to know what you're doing on your very first day there. So, look, this is not an attack or anything of that nature. It's just a very simple observation. If you want to be president, you have to start detailing some specific public policy. And I don't think from this point forward in the campaign, voters are going to be as tolerant of the lack of that as they have been up to now.

  Marco Rubio

  Simple, Thinking, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters.

  Ted Cruz

  Iowa, Class, People

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

  Mara Liasson

  Winning, College, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.

  Mike Huckabee

  Order, Approval, Court

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• Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

  Mike Huckabee

  Increase, Taxes, Approved

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• One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money to try to persuade other voters to make a similar choice - that is, to contribute to our candidate's campaign. If either of these freedoms is violated, the consequences are very grave not only for the individual voter and contributor, but for the society whose free political processes depend on a wide distribution of political power.

  Barry Goldwater

  Exercise, Political, Choices

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