Voting Quotes - Page 10

• Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, Lasts, Next

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.66, Penguin

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• We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

  George Lopez

  Voice, People, Get Better

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Games, Two

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

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• A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

  Jay Griffiths

  Media, Important, Democratic

  "Indonesia's 'slow motion genocide'" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2010.

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• The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

  Jesse Jackson

  Rights, Firsts, Protection

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

  Jill Stein

  Views, Vote, Disaster

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

  Gene Weingarten

  People, Trump, Not Voting

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain because you helped put him there. That's why I never vote, so I can later complain.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Fun, Winning, Guy

  Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Believe, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

  Andrew Aydin

  Trying, Important, Energy

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

  Nikki Reed

  People, Needs, Vote

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• When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christianity, Parking, Parking Lot

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• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Witty, Democracies Have, Political

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• Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

  Howard Rheingold

  Issues, Leader, Understanding

  The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.

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• Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

  George Monbiot

  Conviction, Arise

  "Follow your convictions – this could be the end of the politics of fear". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2015.

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• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Promise, Liberty

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• Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.

  Otis Moss III

  Community, Want, Faces

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.

  L. Neil Smith

  War, Usa, Long

  "Libertarians: The Connies Speak Out (Part Two)". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. October 02, 2005.

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• Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

  Warren G. Harding

  Men, White Man, Black

  "Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921". Book by Carl V. Harris, 1977.

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• I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Years, Voting Age

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2008.

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Party, Years, Long

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• We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

  Julius Malema

  Welcome, Election, Accepting

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• We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

  Helen Zille

  Goal, The End Of The Day, Lasts

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• Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.

  Thuli Madonsela

  Heart, Fate, Men

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