Voters Quotes - Page 4

• Voters quickly forget what a man says.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Forget

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• For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Voting, Needs

  "Writer Joyce Carol Oates". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

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• I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

  Conor Oberst

  Organization, Space, Political

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• Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world: Mongolia, Easter Island, the Turkish Riviera . . . but his choice was Salt Lake City, and that's where he went. Is this man a registered voter? Has he come to grips with the issues? Has he bathed in the blood of the lamb?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Easter, Men, Vacation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Exercise, Hype, Ties

  Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

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• A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

  John Sununu

  Running, Winning, Effort

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• The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.

  John Sununu

  Party, Independent, Talking

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• Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

  James Surowiecki

  Numbers, Tasks, Needs

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

  George Will

  Promise, Democracy, Politician

  "A battle won, but a victory?" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

  George Will

  Government, Responsible, Knows

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• As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.

  Juan Williams

  Book, Cutting, Effort

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• Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

  Juan Williams

  Running, Party, Independent

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• I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

  Robbie Williams

  President, Idiot, Wonder

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

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• I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Thinking, Giving

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• Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

  Andrew Young

  Hands, Land, Cards

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• Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Moral, Social, Program

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• Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

  Howard Rheingold

  Years, Trends, Process

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• There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pride, Caring, Gun

  "Why I Am a Conservative". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1996.

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• The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Issues, Important, Left

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• These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Winning, People

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Groups, Welfare

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.142, Penguin

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• What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.

  Thomas Sowell

  Circles, Doe, Phrases

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.296, Basic Books

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• THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!

  John Irving

  Dumb, Monkeys, Election

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Politician

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