Electorate Quotes

• In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Betrayal, Nerd

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• Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

  Melissa Bean

  Democracy, Engagement, Engaged

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• The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

  Arlen Specter

  Essence, Democracy, Transcendentalism

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• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  Patrick MacGill

  Men, Doe, Done

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Might, Vote, Reason

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• There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Black, Agendas, Addresses

  "Exclusive Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Pt. 2". The Final Call Interview, www.finalcall.com. January 27, 2004.

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• Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

  Brad Henry

  Education, Reading, Democracy

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• If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

  Jim Lehrer

  Long, People, Democracy

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

  David Attenborough

  Decision, Environment, Natural

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• There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate.

  Stockwell Day

  Believe, Moving, Riding

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• I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

  Reese Schonfeld

  Attitude, Thinking, Guides

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• Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

  Paul Weyrich

  Self

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• I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

  Ken Blackwell

  College, December, Vote

  "Keith Olbermann's Interview With Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell". "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.onlisareinsradar.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

  Paul Weyrich

  Self

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, What Matters

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• My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

  Helen Suzman

  Years, Careers, Numbers

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• The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

  Elihu Root

  Exercise, Successful, Practice

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  Camille Paglia

  Political, Prudent, Resurrection

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• I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

  David Remnick

  Thinking, Different, Senate

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• Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Freedom, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Rights, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Foundation, Educated

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• Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Appeals, Militant

  American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch, Morris D. Forkosch, Felix Frankfurter (1966). “Essays in legal history in honor of Felix Frankfurter”, MICHIE

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