Ballots Quotes - Page 7

• I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

  Karl Rove

  Crazy, People, Way

  Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

  Andrew Young

  Children, Taken, Ideas

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• And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

  Michelle Obama

  Husband, Hey, Levels

  Tuskegee University Commencement Address, delivered 09 May 2015, Tuskegee, Alabama

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• Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

  Denis Hayes

  Jobs, Car, Casting

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• The ballot is the only safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Safety

  Frederick Douglass, George L. Ruffin (2001). “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time”, p.460, Digital Scanning Inc

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• The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are happy that this matter has now been determined.

  Chris Hayes

  Matter, Determined, Mood

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• If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

  Malcolm X

  Trying, Ifs

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Justice, Use

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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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• The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Mean, Records, Whispering

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Thinking, People, Nightmare

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Battle, Moral, Standards

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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• It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.

  Tony Benn

  People, Political, Democracy

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• If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.

  Jon Stewart

  Guy, Want, Arms

  "The Daily Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1996 - ).

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• What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

  Lysander Spooner

  Secret, Enemy, Use

  Lysander Spooner (2013). “No Treason”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Mind, Alarms, Watches

  Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”

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• I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

  John Cornyn

  Views, Numbers, People

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But they don't love her like they loved Bill [Clinton], and they don't love her like they loved Barack [Obama], and they don't love her like they love Michelle [Obama]. The love they have for her is related to the fact that right next to her name is a big capital D on the ballot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Names, Speech

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We need a nonpartisan debate commission that actually allows candidates, who are on the ballot in enough states that they could win the election - voters not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.

  Jill Stein

  Winning, Needs, Voters

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

  Nina Turner

  People, Suffering, Deny

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.

  Audie Cornish

  Voting, Machines, Use

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.

  Audie Cornish

  Office, Election, Vote

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Certain kinds of typeface design and typographic design are designed to persuade: we can make this company look modern if we use a crisp sans serif typeface, or we can make this restaurant look like its been around forever if we use typefaces and layout styles that have been around forever too. But there are other categories, and ballot design is one of them, where the goal should be to be purely functional. There have been notable failures in this category.

  Michael Bierut

  Goal, Forever, Design

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude.

  Michael Bierut

  Beach, Butterfly, Presidential

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot.

  Julian Castro

  Negative, Campaigns, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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