Voting Quotes - Page 30

• Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Powerful, Three

  "Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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• The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

  Eric Cantor

  Political, President, Together

  "POLITICO Interview: Eric Cantor". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

  Gail Collins

  People, Income, Want

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Trying, Doe

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Matter, Citizens

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• All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Spring, Technology, Voice

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Needs, Voters

  "Writer Joyce Carol Oates". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

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• How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

  Timothy Zahn

  Black, Democracy, Odd Things

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• Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

  Sarah Vowell

  Paying Taxes, Citizenship, Goofing Off

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

  Julius Malema

  Giving, Complaining, Too Much

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• Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

  Robert Teeter

  Country, Moving, Television

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• We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Integrity, Rights, Machines

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• If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Affair, Amendments, Congress

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• Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Military, Voting Age, Years

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

  Virgil Goode

  Meaningful, Hype, Requirements

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• We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

  DeForest Soaries

  Equipment, Standards, Type

  "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.

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• Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Government, Self, Law

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• We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

  Jim Cooper

  Years, Body, Shame

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• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  Patrick McHenry

  Thinking, Philadelphia, Judging

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• A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Stars, Son, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.

  Julius Malema

  Ties, House, Lazy

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• I don't believe that people vote for President based on spouses. I don't even think they vote much based on vice presidents or any other factor. I think they choose between the two people who are running.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Males, Citizens, Vote

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

  David Levithan

  Mom, Next, Election

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

  Aberjhani

  Country, Jobs, Freedom

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