“There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’” YearsWarLeftDifferencesPerfectPartyRepublicanVoteDemocratCivil WarExceptionNutsModeratesPrintedIdeologicalNot PerfectBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Barney Frank
“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.” PeopleBigsRememberFightingHoursDifferencesKnowingDemocracyGenerationsOughtVoteCastsMaking A DifferenceBallots Author:Ellen Goodman
“When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.” KnowsThreeSoundDifferencesMoneyMillionsVoteDollarsMillion Dollars Book:How Writing Is Written Source: How Writing Is Written
“When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.” IfsWorldShouldHas BeensIdeasDifferencesIndustryMoralityAuthorityVoteWorkersRoundsScreamNew IdeasAssaultWorld Is Round Author:Mary Heaton Vorse
“This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We, conservatives, want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution.” WayWantPhilosophyCertainDifferencesJusticeParticularVoteConstitution Author:Ann Coulter
“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.” KnowsOrderThreeDifferencesMoneyMillionsCrazyTaxesVote Author:Gertrude Stein
“... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.” MenLittlesMadeDifferencesNumbersVoteVotersDividesSuffrageWoman Suffrage Book:Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth Source: Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“The other night, President Bush's press conference was pre-empted by 'American Idol.' You know the difference between President Bush and 'American Idol?' See, on 'American Idol,' the one with the most votes wins.” KnowsNightWinningPresidentDifferencesVotePressesIdolsConferencesPresident BushAmerican IdolPress Conferences Author:Jay Leno