Voting Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• I have a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record. I understand that people disagree on this issue, but I believe that it is a woman's decision, it's a difficult decision, but it's a decision between her and her physician. I will do everything that I can in 50 states of this country to make sure that women have a choice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Democracy, Firsts, Duty

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

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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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• No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .

  Bob Tyrrell

  Hands, Wings, Political

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• New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

  Michael J. Boskin

  Government, President, Majority

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• More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Choices, Secret

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• The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Welfare Programs, Majority

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• When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Grief, Winning

  "Political Statistics". townhall.com. April 05, 2011.

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• Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Roots, Land

  Frederick Douglass, Michael Meyer (1983). “Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings”, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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• How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college? Why do you keep voting for these guys?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, College

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 09, 2015.

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• Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.

  David Limbaugh

  Teaching, Army, People

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• Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Ecosystems, America

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• It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Rights, Justice

  "Henry Rollins: Misguided Outrage Over DOMA’s Demise" by Henry Rollins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

  Boy George

  Moving, Heartless, Care

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• Women will do anything Oprah Winfrey says, and that is why we can't have women voting.

  Artie Lange

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• I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time.

  Jello Biafra

  Fun, Stress, Party

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there's a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins.

  Craig Ferguson

  Cat, Winning, Games

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• Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.

  Daniel Tosh

  Stupid, Hot, Magazines

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• The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting base of the Republican Party so that means committing to anti-abortion positions, opposing women's rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Party, Mean

  "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

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• The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions have been taken; but they have no way of getting into the question of policy-making, decision-making, except insofar as the vague forces and pressures of public debate and public opinion have their impact on the President. The President still has to decide. He can't go to the people and ask them to decide for him; he has to make the decision. In that sense he was condemned to be a dictator.

  Walter Millis

  Taken, Impact, Policy Making

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• American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Democracy, Citizens, World

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Powerful, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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