Voting Quotes - Page 14

• The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

  John Ensign

  People, President, Liberty

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• To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Debt, Vote, Payment

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

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• Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them.

  Charles Barkley

  College, Guy, Today

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• Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

  Charles Barkley

  Years, People, Political

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• The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing.

  Conan O'Brien

  House, Bills, Healthcare

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• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  Samuel Adams

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Mistake

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

  Carly Fiorina

  Republican, Wells

  "The World According to Carly Fiorina". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.wired.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

  Lani Guinier

  Book, School, Loss

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• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  Yeardley Smith

  Humorous, Republican, Democrat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  Theodore Stevens

  People, Today, Vote

  "A Senator Whom Colleagues Are Hesitant to Cross" by Carl Hulse, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 2003.

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• The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Ohio, People, Denial

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• When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

  Aberjhani

  Politics, Election, Vote

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• Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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• People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

  Cory Booker

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "New Jersey’s Cory Booker: A perfect senator for ‘This Town’?". Interview with Jason Horowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

  Robert Graves

  Strong, Philosophy, Party

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Icy

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• Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Catholic Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

  William Proxmire

  Drinking, Men, Hands

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• Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Thinking, Kitchen

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.306, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Hate, Ocean, Science

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• Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were Joseph Goebbels, Otto Dietrich and Alfred Rosenberg, at the top of the key opinion-shaping institutions. In a dictatorship resting on the 'leadership principle', Hitler's anti-Semitic convictions defined policy.

  Jeffrey Herf

  Keys, History, Holocaust

  Jeffrey HERF (2009). “The Jewish Enemy”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Ambition, Sadness, Sight

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• (...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

  James Joyce

  Hygiene, People, Liberty

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.600, Delphi Classics

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• Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Quitting, Maze Runner

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.139, Scholastic UK

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