Quotes by Voting I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter. Stephen Baldwin voting independent brother It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women were choosing an overt misogynist [Donald Trump] over the first woman president. Someone will have to explain that one to me someday. Steve Erickson white-man voting men The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! Steven Weber snakes voting people Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. Stockwell Day voting iraq party There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. Sydney J. Harris republican voting democracy Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement. Ta-Nehisi Coates demographics percent voting Voting is a civic sacrament. Theodore Hesburgh voting politics political People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget. Theodore Stevens voting today people When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. Thomas Jefferson voting principles evil I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where, uh, we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous. Thomas Roberts machines voting mean The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes. Thomas Jefferson voting eye people If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves Thomas Sowell voting giving promise The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. Thomas Jefferson reform voting people To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery. Thomas Paine slavery voting men The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected. Thomas Paine representatives voting rights Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. Thomas Jefferson voting government people Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them. Tim Farron voting taken people More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice. Thomas Sowell voting choices loss How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered. Timothy Zahn voting democracy black A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law. Thomas Jefferson voting rights law «1718192021222324252627»