Voting Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.

  Argus Hamilton

  Rights, Trying, Plot

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• The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.

  Dick Morris

  Years, Numbers, Population

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• The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

  Ben Shapiro

  Jobs, Simple, Cities

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• As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.

  Rod Dreher

  Years, Wrath, Voters

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• If Hillary can't win the nomination - and it's clearly very, very hard for her - she's basically a stalking horse for McCain. She's preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama.

  Rich Lowry

  Horse, Winning, Class

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• The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.

  George Packer

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Agency, Political

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Suicide, Artist, Differences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?

  Darryl Pinckney

  Rights, Class, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.

  Satish Kumar

  Government, Numbers, People

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• People in the media often tend to assume it`s like Trump and [Ted] Cruz fighting over the same voters but when you look at the people who say they`re voting for Donald Trump he does as well with voters who describe themselves as moderate or liberal as he does with voters who themselves as very conservative. So, not all the Trump base would go to Cruz as a second choice.

  Chris Hayes

  Fighting, Media, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Block, Pride, House

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• We're not talking about you scored more points than me and I know that you won and I lost, those are clear results. This is about people's opinions and their subjective takes on things, people that sometimes haven't seen all of the movies they're voting on.

  Don Cheadle

  Talking, People, Opinion

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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• People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote for the bully. It's so strange.

  Jon Gnarr

  People, Bully, Underdog

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we'll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they'll have to respond. But they're not going to respond to us until that happens.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Scare, Twenties

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Government, People, Political

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that's where so much of our focus is, especially from the media, but some of the most important elections are the local elections - the mayors, city council members, county commissioners, school boards. How important school boards are - and we need to get Christian men and women running for office. We need Christian men and women not only running for office, but voting and getting behind other Christians that are running for office.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Running, School

  "Inside The Nationwide Tour To Support 'Godly Leaders'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Years, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.

  Ari Shapiro

  Moving, Years, Oil

  Source: www.npr.org

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