Best Electorate Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.”

“Politicians are granted a certain degree of partisan leniency by their electorate, meaning their constituents will accept legislation they do not entirely agree with if, and only if, they are convinced withdrawing support would strengthen the opposition.”

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Author:Michael Gurnow

“An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.”

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Author:DaShanne Stokes

“She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most of the people.”

Politics History Teaching Electorate

Book:Red Clocks

Source: Red Clocks

“Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.”

Knows Republican Goodness Population Electorate

Author:David Price

“There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.”

Wells Said Order Happened Blair Electorate

Author:John Prescott

“Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.”

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Author:Evangelos Venizelos

“Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.”

Self Electorate

Author:Paul Weyrich

“Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.”

Self Electorate

Author:Paul Weyrich

“The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.”

Giving Stills States Reason Faces President Percent Heat President Obama Gravity Approval Romney Rating Boost Electorate Defying Battleground Approval Rating Defying Gravity

Author:Mara Liasson

“National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.”

Government Law Ability Security Trust Protect Accounts Preserves National Security Electorate Public Trust

Author:Al Franken

“The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.”

Unhappy Unhappiness Pennsylvania Gop Electorate Qualms

Author:Stuart Rothenberg

“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”

Country Politics Betrayal Betray Betrayed Nerd Electorate

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“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.”

“As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.”

People Important Facts Values Ordinary Clever Traditional Files Electorate

Author:Enoch Powell

“Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.”

Ifs World Should Natural Democracy Fundamentals Governance Natural World Electorate

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.”

Needs Able Order Voice Models Weakness Bills Assuming Clinton Debate Electorate

Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.”

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Author:Michael Ignatieff

“We're at the end of an era of failed leadership. We have been led by a divider [Barack Obama] who has sliced and diced the electorate, pitting American against American for political purposes.”

Has Beens Ends Political Purpose Barack Eras Electorate

Author:Rick Perry

“There may be a sense in the electorate, especially among independents that President Obama has overreached in some ways.”

Way May President President Obama Electorate

Author:Michael Fullilove

“Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.”

Self Government Succeed Self-government Electorate

Book:The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover

Source: The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover

“Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical”

People Law Democracy Study Becoming Concepts Direct Roots Betray Representatives Becoming More Oligarchy Electorate Direct Democracy

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.”

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Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.”

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Author:Ai-jen Poo

“The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.”

Government Law Economic Media Policy Size Regulation Brainwashed Electorate Economic Policy

Author:Marc Faber

“I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.”

Thinking Different Senate Electorate

Author:David Remnick

“The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.”

Wind Blow Chinese Owners Borrowing Disgusted Electorate Precious Life Borrowing Money

Author:Cindy Sheehan

“You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.”

Way Looks Government Lying Loses Credibility Electorate

Author:John le Carre

“We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.”

Heart Wanted Opinion Blame Golden Breasts Hug Handsome Accord Electorate Smitten Vivacious

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.”

Known Opinion Democracy Modern Ignorance Research Discovery Majority Western Indifference Public Opinion Electorate

Book:Democracy ancient and modern

Source: Democracy ancient and modern

“Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.”

Reading Education Democracy Educated Reading Books Electorate

Author:Brad Henry

“From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.”

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Book:The Community of Scholars, 1962

Source: The Community of Scholars, 1962

“And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.”

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Author:Jim Bolger

“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.”

Democracy Fronts Susceptible Scapegoat Electorate

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.”

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Author:Scott Pelley

“We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.”

“I guess politicians can be excused for thinking the electorate is stupid because they keep winning reelection. If you were Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid and you kept being reelected, you'd have to think, 'Half of my state is stupid.' But then you wouldn't be smart enough to think that if you had their brains.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why the American public accepts the decisions of its courts, accepts even decisions that nullify the laws a majority of the electorate or their representatives voted for.”

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Book:The Tempting of America

Source: The Tempting of America

“When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.”

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Author:Preston Manning

“Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.”

Should Stills War Democracy Criminals Electorate

Author:Robert Kuttner

“Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.”

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Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

“Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.”

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Author:David Mamet

“My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I think people get so frustrated with Washington, D.C.That's why they're so angry with the - the electorate is so angry with everybody who is involved in government in Washington, D.C. Because if you listen to the folks up here [ on debate], you think that they weren't even there; they had nothing to do with this.”

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Author:Chris Christie

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

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