Voting Quotes - Page 13

• Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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• People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

  Cory Booker

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "New Jersey’s Cory Booker: A perfect senator for ‘This Town’?". Interview with Jason Horowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Catholic Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

  William Proxmire

  Drinking, Men, Hands

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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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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Hate, Ocean, Science

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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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• I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

  Clay Aiken

  Exercise, Thinking, Order

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• Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.

  William Gibson

  Running, Baby, Eye

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.32, Penguin

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• Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Giving, Vote

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.138, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

  Nigel Farage

  Impossible, Treaties, Euro

  "Anti-treaty campaign claims single currency may collapse" by Rowan Gallagher, www.irishtimes.com. May 17, 2012.

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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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• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

  DeForest Soaries

  Challenges, Attention, Jersey

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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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• 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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