Ballots Quotes - Page 4

• I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

  Frances Harper

  Thinking, Needs, Politics

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• When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Entrepreneur, Liberty

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• There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots.

  David Letterman

  Military, White, House

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• Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hurt, Gay, Rights

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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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• I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

  Shimon Peres

  Stronger, Weakness, Public Opinion

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was.

  Tom Ridge

  Jobs, Cutting, Growth

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Money has much more power down the ballot.

  Jane Mayer

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

  Henry Cuellar

  Voting, President, Tickets

  "Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to vote Obama" by Marin Cogan, www.politico.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Simple, Tariffs, Blame

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.209, Hoover Press

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• We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.

  Jill Stein

  Names, People, Voting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The idea that Hispanics or women or any other group of people think alike, vote alike? That's what Democrats want. They want mind-numbed robots who all think alike and who all vote alike. It's easy! You dumb them down, you get rid of critical thinking, and you just have a blob, basically, out there of people that look for the D on the ballot and pull the lever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.

  Khem Veasna

  Support, Political, Campaigns

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• And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.

  Michelle Obama

  Talking, People, Voting

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• Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

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• The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Losing, Election, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Running, Party, Successful

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, America, Presidential

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• The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.

  John F. Kennedy

  Christian, Strong, Men

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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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, Voting, Hot

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• Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Thinking, Political

  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics ch. 38 (1949)

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• Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

  Gus Hall

  America, Next Steps, Slavery

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• We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.

  Dan Savage

  Monday, Morning, War

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

  Florence Luscomb

  Real, Economic, Monopoly

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• Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.

  James Bovard

  Government, Imagination, Political

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.146, Macmillan

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