Voters Quotes - Page 7

• In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Two, Public Opinion

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.581, Routledge

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• The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

  Dan Rather

  New York, Party, Sides

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• I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

  Alan Alda

  Religious, Lying, Government

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• From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Race, Class

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• And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Two, People, Giving

  "Bill O'Reilly: 'The white establishment is now the minority'" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. November 6, 2012.

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• Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way Democrats win, they have two big cities with huge concentrations of voters — and then overwhelm the rest of the state. All of a sudden, a Republican can win — and would probably routinely win — all but three or four congressional districts in Pennsylvania. It would turn it from a state Democrats rely on, as part of the base, to a state that they’re gonna lose under almost any scenario.

  Rick Santorum

  Winning, Cities, Two

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• Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

  Danny Glover

  Summer, School, Becoming

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

  Tom Snyder

  Stupid, People, Want

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• When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.

  Quin Hillyer

  Real, Office, Facts

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• Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

  Charles M. Blow

  Apathy, Abdication, Civics

  "We Should Be in a Rage" by Charles M. Blow, www.nytimes.com. April 9, 2014.

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• The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Issues, Messages, Bans

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• The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it. That's what our open-borders policy is: It's about importing poverty and importing the number of potential registered voters for the Democrat party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Home, Numbers

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• Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Believe, Men, Democracy

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media

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• All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Agriculture, Balance

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.

  Mike Huckabee

  Real, Ideas, America

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• A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

  Gracie Allen

  Fall, Platforms, Candidates

  "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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• Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Judging, Campaigns, Should

  "Mitch McConnell’s Meanderings" by Christopher Brauchli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2012.

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• They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.

  Todd Harris

  Cutting, People, Unions

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• George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

  William G. Boykin

  Political, Majority, United States

  "Idol Talk", www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2003.

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• The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration.

  Al Gore

  Distance, Passion, Office

  Al Gore (2007). “The Assault on Reason”, p.263, Penguin

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• They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

  Ken Blackwell

  Reality, Cards, Use

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• Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

  Elmer Davis

  Government, Average, Able

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• The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

  Dick Morris

  Political, President, Needs

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.74, St. Martin's Press

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• Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

  Dick Morris

  Country, Thinking, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.82, St. Martin's Press

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• The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Keys, Leader

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.96, St. Martin's Press

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