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• Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

  Pat Robertson

  Divorce, Turkeys, Faults

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• Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Voters, Republican, Establishment

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• In terms of my own plans, I anticipate supporting one of the three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich as our nominee. If they don't become the nominee, then I'm probably going to go to the voting booth and find someone else who's running as a conservative or perhaps just write in the name of someone I believe should become the president of the United States, who I could be proud of and who I believe is interested in balancing the budget, keeping America safe with a strong military, and is not willing to disparage fellow Americans, Mexican-Americans, Muslims, and so forth.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Strong, Military

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Progress, Politics, Trouble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

  Jane Bowles

  Democracy, Problem, Protest

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• There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Democracy, Republican, Enough

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• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

  Robert Musil

  People, Democracy, Threatening

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• My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view on the rest of society. I've thought a lot about it, and my position probably doesn't please anyone. I think the government should stay out completely. I will not vote to overturn the Court's decision. I will not vote to curtail a woman's right to choose abortion. But I will also not vote to use federal funds to fund abortion.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Government, Views

  "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics". Book by Joe Biden, July 31, 2007.

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• We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Two, Car, Decision

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• With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts. It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books, delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.

  Aberjhani

  Art, Book, Warrior

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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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• I have one great political idea... That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation - sin is a reproach to any people." This constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics... I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Frederick Douglass' Speech Delivered At The Mass Free Democratic Convention At Ithaca, New York, history.furman.edu. October 14, 1852.

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• What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Men, Equal Pay, Hands

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• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  Yeardley Smith

  Humorous, Republican, Democrat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

  Marc Morial

  Voice, Rights, Effort

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• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  DeForest Soaries

  Principles, Breathe, Consent

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• When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  People, Political, Special

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• It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Running, Country, Book

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• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  Bart Stupak

  Abortion, Care, Language

  "Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak: Health Care Hero or Villain?". On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 05, 2010.

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• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Strong, War, Doors

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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