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• I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Wish, Might, Vote

  "Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton". Interview with Gordon Repinski, www.spiegel.de. August 26, 2016.

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• I've kind of come to a place to where I don't really condemn anyone for what their conscience tells them to do because I'm not happy with my choice that I'm making personally on, you know, not voting for somebody that I think can win.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Winning, Choices

  "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

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• We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.

  Trevor Noah

  America, Looks, News

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

  Kenneth Clarke

  Party, People, Conservative

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• 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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• 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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• We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

  Dolores Huerta

  Population, Half, Knows

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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

  Gerald R. Ford

  Essentials, Process, Felt

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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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• 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 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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• Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

  Loung Ung

  Support, Vote, Speak

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• Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

  Evan Esar

  Government, Citizens, Privilege

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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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• You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world

  Austin O'Malley

  Views, Facts, World

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Unorthodox, Income

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Believe, Useless, Might

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• Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting. What part of democracy are they afraid of? I call on Republicans at all levels of government, with all manner of ambition, to stop fear mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud. I'm calling for universal, automatic voter registration, every citizen in every state in the union.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ambition, Epidemics, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.

  Charles Stross

  Running, Technology, Rights

  Charles Stross (2010). “Accelerando”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Animal, Expression, Ideas

  "Revised Historiography". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, April 1980.

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• The results will be very good.

  Jacob Zuma

  Results, Very Good

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