Voting Quotes - Page 10

• Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, Lasts, Next

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.66, Penguin

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• We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

  George Lopez

  Voice, People, Get Better

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

  Jesse Jackson

  Rights, Firsts, Protection

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain because you helped put him there. That's why I never vote, so I can later complain.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Fun, Winning, Guy

  Sergio De La Pava (2012). “A Naked Singularity: A Novel”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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• I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Games, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

  Jill Stein

  Views, Vote, Disaster

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

  Jay Griffiths

  Media, Important, Democratic

  "Indonesia's 'slow motion genocide'" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2010.

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• The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.

  Gene Weingarten

  People, Trump, Not Voting

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

  Andrew Aydin

  Trying, Important, Energy

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C'mon. Two minutes after we leave, there's going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Believe, Two

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

  George Monbiot

  Conviction, Arise

  "Follow your convictions – this could be the end of the politics of fear". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

  Howard Rheingold

  Issues, Leader, Understanding

  The Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. June 15, 1995.

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• Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

  Nikki Reed

  People, Needs, Vote

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• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Witty, Democracies Have, Political

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• When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christianity, Parking, Parking Lot

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• If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Promise, Liberty

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• Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.

  Otis Moss III

  Community, Want, Faces

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

  Pat Robertson

  Divorce, Turkeys, Faults

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• That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

  Robert Musil

  People, Democracy, Threatening

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• It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Progress, Politics, Trouble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

  Barbara Boxer

  Military, Past, Iraq

  FaceBook post by Senator Barbara Boxer from May 22, 2014

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• I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Years, Voting Age

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2008.

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• The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Artist, Florida

  Transcript of the Republican Presidential Debate in Detroit, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2016.

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• There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Democracy, Republican, Enough

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• I have one great political idea... That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation - sin is a reproach to any people." This constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics... I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.

  Frederick Douglass

  Expression, Ideas, People

  Frederick Douglass' Speech Delivered At The Mass Free Democratic Convention At Ithaca, New York, history.furman.edu. October 14, 1852.

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