Voting Quotes - Page 26

• The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

  Marcus Sakey

  Beer, People, Would Be

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• We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

  John Fugelsang

  Country, Rights, Right To Vote

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• The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Giving Up, Names, Rights

  "Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. November 9, 2006.

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• The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Government, Matter, Vote

  FaceBook post by Judge Andrew Napolitano from Feb 07, 2012

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• The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Responsibility, Office

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one.

  Bruce Campbell

  Religious, Real, Dark

  "WonderCon: Bruce Campbell Talks EVIL DEAD, Premiering at SXSW, His Planned Involvement in the Sequel, ARMY OF DARKNESS 2, and Upcoming Projects". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. March 31, 2013.

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• We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

  Paul Haggis

  Kids, Wife, People

  "‘Show Me a Hero’ Director Paul Haggis on Collaborating with David Simon, Independence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2015.

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.

  Gloria Steinem

  Effectiveness, Problem, Politician

  "Interview with Gloria Steinem". muse.jhu.edu. 2003.

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• Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

  Otis Moss III

  Rights, People, Black

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• I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Students, Palin

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

  Tom Coburn

  Commitment, Oath Of Office, Political

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, who has worst voting record in Senate, just hit me on national security - but I said don't go into Iraq.

  Donald Trump

  Iraq, Records, Amnesty

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Sep 23, 2015

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• But the way they phrase those things when you get to the voting booth, you don't know which way you're voting, cause it's like, "Should we not eat unbabies not on this not day?" .... So you vote no on it, and then it's on the news the next day. "Well, 74% of Americans have decided it's time to eat babies."

  Kyle Cease

  Funny, Baby, Next Day

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• Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

  Campbell Newman

  Country, Reality, Government

  "Campbell's Comeback". "Landline" with Pip Courtney, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2015.

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• Pot smokers may be the largest untapped voting bloc in the country. ... A hundred million Americans have smoked marijuana. You think they want to be considered criminals?

  Gary Johnson

  Country, Marijuana, Thinking

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• We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.

  John Adams

  Mean, Hands, Two

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.437

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• Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches on various occasions”, p.108

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• Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Clueless, Intelligent

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• A wasted vote is voting for someone that you don't believe in

  Gary Johnson

  Believe, Vote, Don't Believe

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• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.

  John Adams

  Cancer, People, Giving

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.43

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• We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.

  John Adams

  Party, Independent, Government

  John Adams' Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 4, 1797.

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• If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Responsibility, Blessing

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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