Voting Quotes - Page 19

• What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

  Sri Aurobindo

  People, Trends, Way

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• [Marco Rubio] a total non-show senator. I mean, he was elected - he defrauded the people of Florida. He was elected to be a senator. He was elected to go and vote on important matters, and he's all over the country. He's not voting. I mean, he's not voting.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mean, Florida

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Marco Rubio doesn't go to the United States Senate. I must say, if I were a United States senator, I would be so honored to be in that magnificent chamber voting for the people of Florida.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, People, United States

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

  David Cameron

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.

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• I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump.

  Glenn Beck

  Trump, Feels, Comfortable

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

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• Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote on the basis of race.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Law, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Why am I voting for Obama? Obama, of all the candidates, is the only one of the major candidates - even more than Hillary Clinton, when they were running against each other - to speak in favor of the defense of the Constitution and the separation of powers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Running, Defense, Favors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils.

  Naomi Wolf

  Two, Evil, Police

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All the things that Hillary Clinton has changed. OK, she used to be strong at the border. Now everyone could stay. She used to have a crime bill; "sorry about that." She used to be for welfare reform. That was a big mistake. "Libya wasn't my job; it's Barack Obama's." The TPP was the - was the gold standard for trade deals. "I hate the TPP." So she changed on everything. What is she voting for, who are you voting for? What are we doing here? She's going to win it just on recognition.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Strong, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is a lack of interest in voting in the United States, and that troubles me. It is very necessary that people get registered, study the issues and be aware of the politics of our country. We will really be set back if people don't take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.

  Rosa Parks

  Country, Issues, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, President, Events

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• I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote.... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for...you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for.

  Carla Howell

  Party, Government, Two

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• I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're at war, and electing a president who is committed to losing it seems to be the most foolish thing we could do. Personal honesty is also important to me, and Kerry is obviously not in the running on that point, given that he can't keep track of the facts in his own autobiography.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Honesty, War

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• To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Slavery, Politics

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• A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

  Fred Thompson

  News, Politics, Conservative

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• I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.

  Gordon Tullock

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Gordon Tullock, Charles Kershaw Rowley (2005). “The economics of politics”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jail

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• At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Democracy, Paper

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.457, Da Capo Press

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• Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  White, Black, Protection

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

  Ken Livingstone

  Income, Done, Study

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• You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32

  Stephen Elliott

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

  William James

  War, Party, Writing

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Winning, Political, Majority

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.

  Sarah Vowell

  Party, Independent, Thinking

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