Voting Quotes - Page 12

• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Wall, Iraq, People

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Smart, America, Adults

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• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Patriotic, Practice

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

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• I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Past, Judging

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• The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don't care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.

  David Letterman

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Presidential, Enemy

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• These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

  Fouad Ajami

  Country, Writing, Two

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• Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were Joseph Goebbels, Otto Dietrich and Alfred Rosenberg, at the top of the key opinion-shaping institutions. In a dictatorship resting on the 'leadership principle', Hitler's anti-Semitic convictions defined policy.

  Jeffrey Herf

  Keys, History, Holocaust

  Jeffrey HERF (2009). “The Jewish Enemy”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Essentials, Process, Felt

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• I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Slavery, May

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.326, Faber & Faber

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• There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Party, Two, Evil

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  Maynard Jackson

  Kings, Hero, Mean

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• The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Ohio, People, Denial

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• It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  People, Important, Election Results

  "Sudan to Close Baghdad Embassy". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  Theodore Stevens

  People, Today, Vote

  "A Senator Whom Colleagues Are Hesitant to Cross" by Carl Hulse, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 2003.

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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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