Voters Quotes

1. "The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters."
Author: Adam Rickitt

2. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."
Author: Alexander Fraser Tytler

3. "A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith."
Author: Anne Lamott

4. "I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband."
Author: Barbara Olson

5. "Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately."
Author: Bill Nelson

6. "I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."
Author: Chris Bell

7. "Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it."
Author: Christina Romer

8. "The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."
Author: Christopher Hitchens

9. "Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win."
Author: Douglas Wilder

10. "Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods."
Author: Frankie Boyle

11. "The basis for building a Christian society is evangelism and missions that lead to a widespread Christian revival, so that the great mass of earth's inhabitants will place themselves under Christ's protection, and then voluntarily use his covenantal laws for self-government. Christian reconstruction begins with personal conversion to Christ and self-government under God's law; then it spreads to others through revival; and only later does it bring comprehensive changes in civil law, when the vast majority of voters voluntarily agree to live under biblical blueprints."
Author: Gary North

12. "I think Governor Romney has a two-part budget plan that very much levels with voters far more so than any candidate in my lifetime."
Author: Glenn Hubbard

13. "A normal woman, indeed, no more believes in democracy in the nation than she believes in democracy at her own fireside; she knows that there must be a class to order and a class to obey, and that the two can never coalesce. Nor is she, susceptible to the stock sentimentalities upon which the whole democratic process is based. This was shown very dramatically in them United States at the national election of 1920, in which the late Woodrow Wilson was brought down to colossal and ignominious defeat—The first general election in which all American women could vote. All the sentimentality of the situation was on the side of Wilson, and yet fully three-fourths of the newly-enfranchised women voters voted against him."
Author: H.L. Mencken

14. "If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign."
Author: Heather Wilson

15. "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
Author: Henry A. Kissinger

16. "The issues are too important to be left for the voters."
Author: Henry Kissinger

17. "The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact."
Author: Herman Cain

18. "But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.'"
Author: Howie Carr

19. "Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been the goal of hundreds of interest groups; hopes of balanced budgets and cheap, business-like administration always ran aground upon this fact. What was more, the United States was a democracy; whatever the doctrinaire objections to it, and however much rhetoric might be devoted to attacking it, a welfare state slowly advanced because voters wanted it that way. These facts gradually made the old ideal of totally free enterprise, unchecked and uninvaded by the influence of government, unreal."
Author: J.M. Roberts

20. "American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome."
Author: Jack Germond

21. "Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads."
Author: Jack Germond

22. "Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign."
Author: Jeb Bush

23. "I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates."
Author: Jim Talent

24. "Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views."
Author: Jim Talent

25. "What the voters told us in the 2010 election was that they wanted a change. And I believe a moderate approach with a dedication to working across the aisle, something I know is important to both me and Congressman Shuler, is the best way forward."
Author: Joe Donnelly

26. "In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process."
Author: John Lewis

27. "The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
Author: John Linder

28. "At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair."
Author: John Redwood

29. "Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are."
Author: Jonathan Haidt

30. "Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed."
Author: Ken Follett

31. "A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty."
Author: Lane Evans

32. "Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children."
Author: Mara Liasson

33. "Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
Author: Marcus Allen

34. "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."
Author: Mark Steyn

35. "Voters, activists, and political leaders of the present day are in the position of medieval doctors. They hold simple, prescientific theories about the workings of society and the causes of social problems, from which they derive a variety of remedies – almost all of which prove either ineffectual or harmful. Society is a complex mechanism whose repair, if possible at all, would require a precise and detailed understanding of a kind that no one today possesses. Unsatisfying as it may seem, the wisest course for political agents is often simply to stop trying to solve society's problems."
Author: Michael Huemer

36. "David Vitter is a perfect case-study to demonstrate that Louisiana voters lack brains."
Author: Michel Templet

37. "What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots."
Author: Newt Gingrich

38. "Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point."
Author: Nick Clegg

39. "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."
Author: Patricia Hewitt

40. "Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments."
Author: Paul Weyrich

41. "Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002."
Author: Paul Weyrich

42. "Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate."
Author: Richard Parks Bland

43. "The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."
Author: Robert Reich

44. "The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican."
Author: Robert Teeter

45. "A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president."
Author: Ron Fournier

46. "Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater."
Author: Ted Cruz

47. "While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance."
Author: Thomas E. Mann

48. "People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side."
Author: Tom Snyder

49. "These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal."
Author: Walter Lippmann

50. "The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
Author: Will Rogers

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