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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

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  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’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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Pete Coors

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  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

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  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

• Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

  Tony Snow

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  Tags in Issues, Voting

• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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  Tags in Injustice, Civil Rights, Voting

• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  O. Henry

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  Tags in Voting

• 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

• Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That’s true.

  Bill Clinton

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  Tags in Voters, Ordinary, Voting

• When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

  Henry F. Ashurst

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  Tags in People, Voting

• Everyone’s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don’t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

  Ben Affleck

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  Tags in Presume, Entitled, Voting