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• As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

  Katherine Harris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in I Believe, Voting

• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  Gary Hamel

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  Tags in Citizens, Voting

• There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Extreme, Voting, Freedom, Interest, Determination

• There’s an enormous difference between voting for a candidate because you hate another ethnic group and voting for a candidate because he’s a member of your ethnic group.

  Jonathan Haidt

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  Tags in Voting, Ethnic

• People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

  Jonathan Haidt

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  Tags in Voting, Views
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  Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Democracy, Knowledge, Life

  Tags in Elitist, Elite, Voting

• From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

  Kathleen Sebelius

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  Tags in Served, Voting

• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Patriotism, Voting

• If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  Pete Coors

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voting

• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion – no public funding for abortion.

  Bart Stupak

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Voting

• The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voting, Party

• Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

  George Gallup

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  Tags in Public Opinion, Voting, President

• It’s clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

  George Galloway

  Topics in College

  Tags in Electoral, Voting

• It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country’s history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voting, Rights

• Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it’s valid.

  Macklemore

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  Tags in Two, Understand, Voting, Corrupt, Politicians

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  Earl Long

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  Tags in Voting, Machines

• Americans of our own time – minority and majority Americans alike – need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

  Elijah Cummings

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  Tags in American, Guidance, Voting

• Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

  DeForest Soaries

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  Tags in Consent, Foundational, Act, Voting, Breathe

• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private… and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  DeForest Soaries

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voting, Blind

• It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

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  Tags in Election, Counting, Voting