Quotes with votes

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  • Adlai Stevenson II The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Anthony Weiner I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Boris Johnson If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bert Lance In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • John Jay Chapman It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bob Barr Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • John F. Kennedy There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Will Rogers There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Barbara Boxer There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, 'What do you need? What do you want?'
    Americans for Prosperity
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Votes should be weighed not counted.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Yogi Berra Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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