Vote Quotes
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I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
Harold Washington
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
Barbara Mikulski
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
Carly Fiorina
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How we vote now will be determined by whether meaningful action can occur on some of the areas that we outlined a few weeks ago.
Jack Layton
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A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
William Francis Buckley
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After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi
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I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.
Mike Thompson
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Douglas Jerrold
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Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
Gary North
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Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.
Alan Young
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
Gary Ackerman
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Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.
Carles Puigdemont
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
Walter Cronkite
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
Agnes Varda
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham Sumner
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A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.
Peter Schiff
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We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.
Angela Alioto
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It has always been our deep conviction, and we have always stressed the fact that the only solution for Afghanistan is democracy through elections. Each individual must have the right to vote. The day we will be in Kabul, we will organize elections under the auspices of international organizations.
Ahmad Shah Massoud
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In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.
Harper Reed
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The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
Joe Conason
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Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.
Joseph Stalin