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Voting Quotes

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Sharon Salzberg

Life Value Voting Breathing Abstract

I just have lot of faith in the minds of Americans to make the right voting decisions.

Faith Voting Decisions Minds Right

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

Stand Voting Terrorism Take Role

In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.

Murray Rothbard

Government Voting Serve Market Able

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Plants Believe Voting Evolution Gone

As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here.

Kersti Kaljulaid

Government Society Voting Done Run

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Howard Rheingold

Democracy Voting Understanding Just

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.

Day Voting Year Body Born Meet

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Justice Calm Voting Decisions Logic

In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.

Jerry A. Webman

Money Government Voting Appearance

Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD.

Walk Voting Meeting Just Because

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

John F. Kennedy

Hope Me Voting American Vote Will

Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We're just another demographic to try and please, but there's no point if we aren't voting.

Eliza Doolittle

People Care Voting Young Matter Try

In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.

Lion Win Think Thought Voting Out

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

Time Democracy Voting You Vote Take

It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.

Good I Am Alcohol Voting Long Run

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Love Day Voting Sight Up Voices

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

Jeff Fortenberry

Voting Political Party Vote Right

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

Change Think Voting Bad I Can Over

There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

Fight Voting Make Easier Many

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.

Time Voting Feeling Growing Said He

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

Purpose Face Present Voting Party

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.

Margaret Atwood

Life Racism Fight Writing Voting

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Government Democracy Voting Counting

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