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“All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.”

Doe Country Whole United Equal Usa Voters Representatives American Woman

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.”

People May Said God Five Politician Bigger Forgiving Congress Conservative Lawyer California Voters Gay Marriage Robes

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.”

People Want Ideas Real Care America Left Issues Goes On Healthy Don't Care Campaigns Lifts Discussion Voters Thirst Trails Vertical

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.”

Ifs Age Known Principles Philosophical Conservative Idiot Birthday Voters Swings Fourteen Toasters

Author:Ann Coulter

“The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.”

Law Cases Risk Taxes Vote Election Threat Voters Polls Right To Vote Unconstitutional

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.”

Fall Candidates Voters Platforms

Author:Gracie Allen

“Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.”

Way United Common Universal Harmony Democratic South March Voters South Africa Suffrage Irreversible Universal Suffrage

Author:Nelson Mandela

“They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.”

People Has Beens Millions Cutting Unions Campaigns Helpful Voters Governors Clutter Smear Campaigns

Author:Todd Harris

“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.”

States Political United United States Majority Voters

Author:William G. Boykin

“The Founders of the U.S. gave the senators a term of office three times longer than that of a representative precisely to encourage a reflective frame of mind, a distance from the passions of the voters, and a capacity for deliberative consideration.”

Mind Political Passion Three Term Office Capacity Distance Consideration Voters Representatives Founders Senators Three Times Frame Of Mind

Book:The Assault on Reason

Source: The Assault on Reason

“They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.”

Use Reality Resistance Cards Voters Legislature Bipartisan

Author:Ken Blackwell

“Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.”

Government Able Willing Average Voters Applause Public Life

Author:Elmer Davis

“The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.”

Needs Political Politics President Levels Greater Policy Direct Sells Campaigns Permanent Voters Crucial Preference Involvement Disagreement Inhibitions

Book:The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

“Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.”

Thinking Want Country Political Politics Politician Tension Voters

Book:The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

“The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.”

Doe Political Politics Realizing Party Leader Alive Keys Republican Democratic Voters Political Parties

Book:The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

Source: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century

“There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.”

Wells Ideas Today Political Politics Thirty Voters Seconds

Author:Dick Morris

“Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.”

Has Beens Liberty Greater Threat Conservative Hungry Fighter Voters Principled

Author:Ted Cruz

“I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.”

Want Country Helping President Differences Answers Opinion Voters Differences Of Opinion

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.”

Matter Particular Concern Population Propaganda Voters Association Topics

Author:Fredrik Bajer

“For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.”

Ifs Political Voice Virtue Democracy Politician Voters Incumbents

Author:Paul Jacob

“There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Littles Political Winning Differences Views Fool Politician Please Thousand Economics Tiny Educated Minorities Voters Sensible Economist Well Educated Median

Author:Bryan Caplan

“We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.”

Ifs Together Opportunity Demand Percent Population Feminist Working Together Voters

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it would make a difference, even if it is only to educate the people around you.”

People Ifs Use Action Differences Issues Influence Climate Champion Making A Difference Voters Educate

Author:Joseph J. Romm

“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.”

Government Political Politics Known Exercise Voters Political Power Oversight

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.”

People Thinking Knows Looks I Can Mistake Careers Taken Judging Convince Voters Steroid One Mistake

Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”

“Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.”

“A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.”

Way States United United States Support Depends Standing Western Wave Officials Voters Anarchy Marijuana Irrelevant Tidal Waves

Author:John Vasconcellos

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.”

Source: Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.”

People Should Lasts White Path Republican Vote Election Voters Reach Out Wrong Path Propagandist

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe States Remember President United United States Higher Standards Election Obligation Voters Election Day Higher Standards

Author:Bob Dole

“Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.”

Ifs Mind Problem Natural Connections Abortion Voters Flip Stumps Recoil Flip Flops Personal Connection

Author:Mark Steyn

“But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.”

Needs Problem Frustration Voters

Author:Patricia Hewitt

“Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?”

Knows Years Lasts Realizing Results Standards Hundred Gold Prosperity Improvement Voters Steady Unprecedented Standards Of Living Quota Jeopardize American Voters

Book:Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses

Source: Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses

“Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.”

Should Judging Spending Campaigns Contribution Appropriate Voters Disclosure Campaign Contributions

Author:Mitch McConnell

“For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism.”

Home Bigs Found Social Religious White Issues Republican Democrat Decades Voters Conservatism Evangelical Chunks Wedges

Author:Marvin Olasky

“He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.”

Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.”

Thinking Humor Funny America Black White Woods Barack Appeals Voters Black And White Tigers

Author:Frankie Boyle

“Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.”

Done Levels Voters Retail Campaigning Wyoming

Author:Mary Cheney

“Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.”

Knows Matter School Rich Dangerous Fine Hot Stuck Weather League Fancy Distinction Voters Elites Harvard Ivy Supper Loathe Yale Ivy League Stuck Up Ivy League Schools

Author:Russell Baker

“It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”

“They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.”

Ifs Higher Election Iraq Terrorist Our Family Voters Threatening Voter Turnout

Author:Conrad Burns

“In the short-run, the market is a voting machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability - but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.”

Long Running Emotional Tests Machines Voting Voters Stability Long Runs Reflecting Weighing Registration Voter Registration Emotional Stability

Author:Benjamin Graham

“If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Crazy Acceptance Republican Favors Voters Contracts Entitled American Voters

Author:Malcolm Wallop

“At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.”

“I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.”

Ifs Black Gay Rate Data California Voters Polls Exit Props Mccain Shorts

Author:Dan Savage

“I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.”

“Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.”

Important Leadership Style Research Important Things Candidates Voters

Author:Robert Teeter

“All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.”

Firsts Term Gun Intention Lips Owners Massive Voters Conspiracy Amendments Deceiving Second Amendment Lip Service Gun Owners

Author:Wayne LaPierre

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