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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.

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Voting, Want, Matter

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

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Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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Christian, Country, Government

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We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

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Country, Different, Generations

"Burying conservatism" by Ian Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2008.

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We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.

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Talking, America, Scary

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Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

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President, Legacy, Voters

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Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

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Judging, Understanding, Roles

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Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

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Spiritual, Leader, Scary

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The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

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Average, Voters, Seven

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What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

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Christian, School, Mind

"Audacity and irony" by Angelia Wilson, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

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Real, Enemy, Mindset

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The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.

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News, Foxes, Wells

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So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

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Song, Media, Giving

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Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

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Truth, Believe, Issues

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If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.

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Christian, Country, Army

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They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now.

Paul Weyrich

Want, Vote

Remarks to the Religious Roundtable in August 1980. "The Hidden Election: Politics and Economics in the 1980 Presidential Campaign". Book by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 1981.

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Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

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Able, Firsts, Audience

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Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.

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People, Democracy, Scales

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Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

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Money, Teenager, Trying

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In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

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Children, Home, Boys

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For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

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"Questions for CAIR" by Paul Weyrich, www.newsmax.com. January 21, 2004.

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Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

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Media, Stories, Radio

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The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

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Radio, Conservative, Reason

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Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

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Christian, Religious, College

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I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'

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Writing, Men, Doe

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If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.

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Fall, News, Faces

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Born: October 7, 1942
Died: December 18, 2008
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