Voting Quotes - Page 31

• A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

  Jim Trelease

  Home, Choices, Decision

  Jim Trelease (2006). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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• A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.

  Joel Salatin

  Children, School, Boys

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• States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.

  David Sedaris

  Hurt, Rights, Giving

  David Sedaris (2013). “Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Responsibility, Gay, Lunch

  "Gay Marriage and the Law" by Nick Traverse, www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2010.

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• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Needs, Rare Moments, Plans

  "JFK’s Daughter Endorses Obama" by Caroline Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Heart, Democracy, Important

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• Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Lying, Bully, Bayonets

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• Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

  Benjamin Tucker

  Slavery, Privilege, Individual

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• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

  Dick Gephardt

  Democracy, Internet, Direct

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2016

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• And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.

  Michelle Obama

  Talking, People, Voters

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• In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.

  Benjamin Graham

  Issues, Choices, Quality

  Benjamin Graham (1962). “Security Analysis: Principles and Technique”

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• You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one.

  Bruce Campbell

  Religious, Real, Dark

  "WonderCon: Bruce Campbell Talks EVIL DEAD, Premiering at SXSW, His Planned Involvement in the Sequel, ARMY OF DARKNESS 2, and Upcoming Projects". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. March 31, 2013.

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• As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

  Kid Rock

  Guy, Hollywood, Politician

  "Kid Rock Jams Out For Mitt Romney" by Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. February 28, 2012.

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• You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Sweet, Guy

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• As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Hearing, Congress

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• It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone.

  Alma Adams

  Party, Rights, Voters

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• I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, Hands, Land

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• The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Views, Media

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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• We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

  Louise Erickson

  Football, Government, Games

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• A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Validation, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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• Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, People, Desire

  "Our Coverage of New York Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage" by Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2011.

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• We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

  Paul Haggis

  Kids, Wife, People

  "‘Show Me a Hero’ Director Paul Haggis on Collaborating with David Simon, Independence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2015.

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