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“Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.”

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Author:Virginia Foxx

“One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.”

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Author:Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

“If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.”

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Author:Al Franken

“There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.”

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Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.”

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Author:Booker T. Washington

“First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.”

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Author:Dan Fouts

“We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.”

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Author:Kinky Friedman

“I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.”

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Author:Bob Schaffer

“You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.”

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Author:David Letterman

“If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.”

Democracy Decided Bullets Ballots

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“There's a difference between having a challenger whose name appears on the ballot and that`s pretty much it, versus having a challenger who forces you into uncomfortable positions, says some things about you that makes you defend yourself.”

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Author:Steve Kornacki

“The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited. ... There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people. Because today, if you're appointed by the king, they don't feel that they're responsible for the people. If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work — because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.”

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Author:Abdallah II

“A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.”

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Author:Jane Addams

“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.”

“So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.”

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Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.”

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Book:Essays, English and American

Source: Essays, English and American

“Democracy is more than a ballot box.”

Democracy Boxes Ballots

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“A lot of issues were on the ballots. In New York City there was Proposition 14. That would put a ceiling on the number of late-night talk shows. And California passed Proposition 21. That would change guacamole officially to guac.”

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Author:David Letterman

“In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Arnold Schwarzenegger has still not officially bowed out of this race. It looks like he's not gonna run. But I'll tell ya, if Arnold does run, he better get on the ballot, because you don't want a write-in with a name like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because people will go - 'Schwarz, schwarz, oh Davis is easier.'”

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Author:Jay Leno

“The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.”

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Author:Muhammadu Buhari

“It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.”

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Author:Justin Raimondo

“The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.”

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Author:Ellen Goodman

“What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.”

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Author:Wavy Gravy

“Never forgive at the ballot box!”

Forgiving Boxes Ballots Never Forgive

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.”

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Author:Aaron Rodgers

“If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a little cross in a ballot box, etc, does not represent your view. It is an act of desperation.”

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Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death”

Liberty Bullets Ballots

Book:Malcolm X Speaks Out

Source: Malcolm X Speaks Out

“The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.”

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Author:Kelly Ayotte

“My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.”

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Author:Russell Brand

“Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.”

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Author:Russell Brand

“Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.”

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Book:The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873

Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873

“There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.”

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Author:Michael Baumgartner

“The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.”

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Author:Cynthia McKinney

“People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.”

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Author:Mark Thomas

“It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.”

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Author:Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

“We are told it will be of no use for us to ask this measure of justice--that the ballot be given to the women of our new possessions upon the same terms as to the men--because we shall not get it. It is not our business whether we are going to get it; our business is to make the demand.... Ask for the whole loaf and take what you can get.”

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Author:Susan B. Anthony

“I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.”

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Author:Sojourner Truth

“Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

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Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'”

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Author:Jay Leno

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