Voters Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

  Dick Morris

  Ideas, Political, Politics

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• I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Differences, President

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• Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Population, Association, Matter

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• For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.

  Paul Jacob

  Voice, Political, Democracy

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• There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool.

  Bryan Caplan

  Winning, Thinking, Views

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• We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Opportunity, Feminist, Working Together

  "Gender Equality Is a Myth!". shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.

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• You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Differences, Issues, People

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• I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Mistake, Taken, Thinking

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• Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

  Paul Weyrich

  President, Legacy, Conservative

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• Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Russia, Rights

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• A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.

  John Vasconcellos

  Marijuana, Support, United States

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

  James Bovard

  Taken, Two, Lunch

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• The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  White, People, Path

  "Phyllis Schlafly Tells Republicans To Ignore Hispanic Voters, Focus On White People" by Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.

  Bob Dole

  Believe, Thinking, President

  "Dole, Clinton Push On Toward Tuesday's Vote". www.cnn.com.

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• Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

  Mark Steyn

  Abortion, Mind, Connections

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• But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Frustration, Needs, Problem

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• Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Gold, Quota

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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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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• For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.

  Marvin Olasky

  Religious, Home, White

  "Christian Right Says Ayn Rand Could Split GOP" by Eric Sapp, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, United States

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Black And White

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• Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

  Mary Cheney

  Wyoming, Retail, Done

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• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

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• It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Government, Ideas

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