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“I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.”

Quote by Clay Aiken

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Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken, born November 30, 1978, in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an American singer-songwriter who gained fame as the runner-up on the second season of American Idol in 2003. He has released multiple successful albums, including "Measure of a Man" and "Retry," selling over 5 million copies worldwide. Known for his warm baritone voice and pop-rock style, Aiken has received Grammy nominations and achieved several chart-topping singles. Beyond music, he is a dedicated philanthropist, founding the Clay Aiken Foundation in 2004 to support children's education and health initiatives. He is also an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. more

“I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.”

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Author:Clay Aiken

“I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.”

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Author:Clay Aiken

“When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.”