Voting Quotes - Page 20

• Pot advocates actually try to convince people who don't need or want medical marijuana to go get a card, because as those numbers go up, it's like voting for an initiative. It's saying "There are this many people who want to use this who are not getting in trouble, who are not turning around and selling it or giving it to minors." No matter what they have - cancer, HIV, depression - anybody who says they feel better after smoking marijuana, I feel they should be able to do so, especially if it's in the privacy of their own home.

  Doug Benson

  Cancer, Home, Feel Better

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.

  Margaret Atwood

  Passion, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I hate to say Americans are ignorant and lazy, but a lot of them are ignorant and lazy. It's just like what I was talking about with Rebel Music and art. When you live in a place that has a lot of good things that make life easier, it's easier to take them for granted. But what frustrates me to no end are people who want to blame Obama or blame anything that is something that if they were actually doing anything as simple as voting, it might not be as bad as it is.

  Shepard Fairey

  Art, Hate, Simple

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Islamic, Men, People

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• As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. I don't mean there's never any overlap. You learn things in one area and bring them into another area. But giving a speech against racism is not the same as writing a novel. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Loyalty, Art, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don't make the mistake, America, of voting for Barack Obama who, by the way, does not come out of the American black experience and everything white Americans feel guilty about. He's a Hawaiian born in 1961.

  Ann Coulter

  Mistake, Black, Guilty

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Social Democrats have to listen to people who are attracted to the AfD party. That isn't a mistake at all. You can also win them back. Of course, there are a lot of angry voters who are ideologically charged. But there are also a lot of quieter voters who plan on voting AfD to send a message. We can never give up on them.

  Martin Schulz

  Giving Up, Mistake, Party

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• The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

  Marcus Sakey

  Beer, People, Would Be

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• Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Couple, Rights, Years

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• I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Cancer, Thinking

  "Politically Incorrect" by Ken Tucker, www.ew.com. June 7, 2002.

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• Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

  Scarlett Johansson

  People, Want, Kind

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

  Tucker Carlson

  Democracy, Sap

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

  Bernie Sanders

  Support, Constitution Of The United States, Terrorism

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• I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Mad, Political

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I get most of my reviews through e-mail, and then I go and read it and go on message boards to check it out. I want to see what's out there and to better estimate my position. I'm definitely happy that a lot of people are voting positively for Postal - especially the hundreds and hundreds who actually saw it. Still, there are a lot of people who didn't see it who are giving me only one point out of 10 because they hate me, and it has nothing to do with the movie.

  Uwe Boll

  Hate, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.

  Bill Maher

  Law, People, Drug

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

  Kevin Drum

  Party, Would Be, Done

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous.

  Thomas Roberts

  Mean, Machines, Slavery

  "MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: GOP Wants to Go Back to When No Women Voted, 'Slavery Was Cool'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. September 23, 2011.

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• You notice that all the minorities are going to be voting for Barack Obama because he's a minority. He's going to be their hero; he's going to be their white knight if you will, or in this case black knight.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Hero, Knights, White

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• Vote wisely, even if that means not voting at all.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Mean, Vote, Ifs

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• At least when I was young, in high school: "Eh, voting doesn't mean nothing." You don't really know that to be true, you just say it. Then you get older, and responsible, and you go, "Oh heck, let me vote." And then you vote and you go away. I was actually right when I was 16.

  Aaron McGruder

  School, Mean, Going Away

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• Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.

  Aaron McGruder

  Mean, Thinking, Wish

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the people should demand accountability on the voting. I think there's no point in voting if you're not gonna demand fairness and be able to verify each vote. And other countries can do this fairly easily. So I don't think you really want democracy if you're not willing to take that first step.

  Aaron McGruder

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

  Joss Stone

  Needs, Referendums, Heard

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

  John Fugelsang

  Country, Rights, Right To Vote

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