Voting Quotes - Page 18

• Despite the insanity of using whether you would want to have a beer with someone as a legitimate reason for voting for or against them, I always felt that is indicative of a massive problem in politics: It matters as much what your personality is as how smart you are or how good you are at your job. That is a huge, huge problem. A lot of people who are very smart or very good at their jobs are not people I would want to ever have a beer with - but I would want them making massive policy decisions with huge implications for the future of the planet.

  Michael Schur

  Jobs, Smart, Beer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media - none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.

  Howard Zinn

  Loyalty, School, Patriotic

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

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• I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, People, Important

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• All the things that Hillary Clinton has changed. OK, she used to be strong at the border. Now everyone could stay. She used to have a crime bill; "sorry about that." She used to be for welfare reform. That was a big mistake. "Libya wasn't my job; it's Barack Obama's." The TPP was the - was the gold standard for trade deals. "I hate the TPP." So she changed on everything. What is she voting for, who are you voting for? What are we doing here? She's going to win it just on recognition.

  Brian Kilmeade

  Strong, Sorry, Mistake

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.

  George Carlin

  Country, Party, Exercise

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.

  Lindsey Graham

  Believe, Gun, Ideas

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Democracy, Paper

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.457, Da Capo Press

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• The problem with the immigration debate, it's probably is the most poisoned and political debate of any issue, because you have this huge voting bloc that everybody says is yours

  Greg Gutfeld

  Issues, Political, Immigration

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Animal, Expression, Ideas

  "Revised Historiography". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, April 1980.

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• Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate the public about the potential for voting system reform, CVD can play a central role in a pro-democracy movement right here in America!

  John Anderson

  Play, America, Democracy

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• President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

  Jon Stewart

  President, Voters, Opposition

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• The results will be very good.

  Jacob Zuma

  Results, Very Good

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• When some people ask me about voting, they would say will you support this candidate or that candidate? I say: "I will support this candidate for one minute that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will support A versus B, but before I am going to the voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I am going to concentrate on organizing people and not organizing electoral campaign."

  Howard Zinn

  People, Support, Campaigns

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Direct Action, Government

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  Aaron Klein

  Immigration, Reform, Gains

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

  Aberjhani

  Rights, Foundation, Would Be

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• Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

  Leonard Lance

  Issues, People, Example

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• Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. Thats democracy.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  People, Political, Democracy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Voice, Add, Action

  "We Choose Dignity" by Jens Stoltenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

  Christine Pelosi

  Thinking, Rights, Voters

  "Democrats Push Voter Protection While GOP Shout Voter Fraud in a Crowded Polling Place" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.

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• Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

  Nancy Lublin

  Believe, Voting Age, United States

  "Lower the Voting Age" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2009.

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• If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

  Mordecai Ham

  Scary, Als, Vote

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• I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

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• National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

  John Adams

  Party, Differences, Defense

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