Voting Quotes - Page 36

• Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

  Donna Brazile

  Party, Issues, Rights

  "Brazile: Why I am a Democrat and why your vote should count". www.cnn.com. February 27, 2014.

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• What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Doctrine, Noble

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• Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doing Nothing, Civil Disobedience, Voting Day

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

  Avi Rubin

  Technology, Thinking, Today

  "Grant Awarded to Improve Electronic Voting" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

  Edward Brooke

  White, Rights, Years

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• People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves....I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers.

  Linda Ronstadt

  War, Ideas, Worry

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• But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

  Al Sharpton

  Beautiful, Believe, America

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Choices, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.53, 谷月社

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• I have a very, very hard time voting for Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton.

  Bret Stephens

  Hard Times, Clinton, Hard

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I have a tremendous fan base. I know we have a tremendous base, we have the most incredible people. But I just don`t have any interest in that. I have one interest, and that`s on November 8th. And frankly, right now, some people are voting right now.

  Donald Trump

  People, Fans, November

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber stamp. But what these guys are doing is, "Wait a minute, we don't have to vote yes or no, and maybe we can trick our voters into not holding us accountable for not voting yes or no."

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Yes You Can, Waiting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

  Penn Jillette

  Bullying, Gun, Thinking

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.

  Nigel Farage

  Ukip, Work Out, Female

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The NRA is weakening but the opposing forces are stronger. A member of Congress has and still does pay a price for voting against the NRA. But now a member pays a price for voting with the NRA, too. In many districts, the price is higher when a member votes with the NRA than against the NRA. The public is outraged.

  Charles Schumer

  Stronger, Pay, Doe

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

  Michael Lewis

  People, Rational, Creatures

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a Green Party supporter, I would argue that middle-class black people are voting against their interests oftentimes.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Party, Class, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

  Joseph Stalin

  People, Giving, Desire

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• They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

  Paul Weyrich

  Want, Matter, Facts

  "The Hidden Election" by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 1981.

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• You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.

  Maya Angelou

  Powerful, Gay, Voice

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• Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Success, Education, Real

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.538, Best Books on

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• The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, People, Evil

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Borders, Politician, Should

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• People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Party, People, Choices

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