Voters Quotes - Page 35

• I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Thinking, Facts, Grumpy

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Despite the bigoted nature of Donald Trump`s plan to keep Muslims - all Muslims out of this country and almost universal condemnation of that plan by prominent Republican leaders, new polling out suggests that what Trump wants to do may be perfectly acceptable to rank and file GOP voters.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Leader, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, Eszterhas wrote "Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression."

  David Shuster

  Running, Men, Expression

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• 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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• The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.

  Henry Rollins

  Leader, Female, Doe

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• “Governments accountable to the voters focus on building roads and schools—not weapons of mass destruction.”

  George W. Bush

  School, Government, Mass Destruction

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• I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

  Rick Perry

  Disappointment, Years, Feelings

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• The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?

  James Bovard

  Keys, Offering, Candidates

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.183, Macmillan

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• How, voters will ask, can we cover 50 million new people without any new doctors or nurses? The answer is to ration health care, with the U.S. government deciding whom will get hip and knee replacements, heart bypass surgery and all manner of medical treatments. And what does rationing mean? It means that the elderly will be denied care, which they can now get whenever they want it.

  Dick Morris

  Heart, Mean, Doctors

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• I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

  Jon Stewart

  Placebo Effect, Missing, Golden Girls

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• A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

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• Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Fun, Stupidity, American Voters

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• Everybody complains about pork, but members of Congress keep spending because voters do not throw them out of office for doing so. The rotten system in Congress will change only when the American people change their beliefs about the proper role of government in our society. Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs. We must reject unlimited government and reassert the constitutional rule of law if we hope to halt the spending orgy.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Law, Creating

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• It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

  William Hague

  Election, Policy

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• A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Soldier, Bullets, Ballots

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.774, Best Books on

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• My father represents a very interesting challenge to the Republican party. I think this is taking people by surprise. (But) I think that's why he's so welcomed by the American voters, because they want somebody who says what they are thinking.

  Ivanka Trump

  Father, Party, Thinking

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• When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

  Ayn Rand

  Majority Rule, Liberty, Principles

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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