Voters famous quotes

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
-- Bill Nye

#Needs #Voters #Taxpayers

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obamas 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
-- Bob Beauprez

#Stars #Victory #Voters

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
-- Bob Brown

#Age #News #Voters

Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law.
-- Byron York

#Law #Obamacare #Voters

In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.
-- Byron York

#Tuesday #Growing #Voters

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt

#Country #Doe #Voters

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
-- Charles M. Blow

#Apathy #Abdication #Voters

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
-- Charles Rangel

#Voters

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.
-- Christina Romer

#Details #Voters #Honest

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.
-- Chuck Todd

#Believe #Thinking #Voters

I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.
-- Clay Aiken

#Want #Voters #Broads

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.
-- Conrad Burns

#Iraq #Voter Turnout #Voters

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
-- Cynthia McKinney

#Law #Voters #Voter Id

The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?
-- Dan Rather

#New York #Party #Voters

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
-- Danny Glover

#Summer #School #Voters

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.
-- David Brooks

#Class #Views #Voters

According to Gallup, Obama has already lost support among Jewish voters, down from 78 percent to 68 percent. If Romney shows that he is genuinely committed to Israel and that Obama is not, he'll make further inroads.
-- David Limbaugh

#Israel #Support #Voters

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

#Ideas #Political #Voters

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.
-- E. J. Dionne

#Voters #Fool #Republican

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

#Government #Average #Voters

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.
-- Emily Yoffe

#Accomplishment #Addresses #Voters

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
-- Eric Holder

#Voter Fraud #Voters #Vote

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
-- Eric Liu

#Christian #Voters #Purpose

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.
-- Evangelos Venizelos

#Want #Voters

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.
-- Frank Luntz

#Irs #Voters #Purses

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.
-- Fredrik Bajer

#Voters #Matter #Topics

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.
-- Gracie Allen

#Fall #Voters #Platforms

They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters.
-- Greg Nickels

#Lines #Voters #Enough

Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem
-- Herman Cain

#Identity #Loyal #Voters

I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.
-- Hillary Clinton

#Running #Campaigns #Voters

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.
-- Howard Rheingold

#Years #Trends #Voters

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
-- Jack Germond

#Degrees #Voters #Belief

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.
-- James Carville

#Dumb #Lazy #Voters

I think the voters can make up their own minds.
-- Jeb Bush

#Thinking #Mind #Voters

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.
-- Jeb Bush

#Campaigns #Lasting Impressions #Voters

Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.
-- Jeb Bush

#Immigration #Voters #Gateways

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
-- Jeb Bush

#Independent #Florida #Voters

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
-- Jesse Jackson

#Voters #Politician

Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.
-- Jim Talent

#Views #Looks #Voters

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
-- Joan Blades

#Presidential #Voter Turnout #Voters

I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.
-- Joe Manchin

#Real #Thinking #Voters

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.
-- Joe McGinniss

#Political #Television #Voters

THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
-- John Irving

#Dumb #Monkeys #Voters

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

#Voters #Moral #Program

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
-- Jose Marti

#Trust #Honor #Voters

Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.
-- Juan Carlos I of Spain

#Voters #Way #Faults

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Midwest #Voters #Democrat

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.
-- Judy Woodruff

#Effort #African American #Voters

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.
-- Ken Blackwell

#Reality #Use #Voters

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
-- Lucy Powell

#Home #Government #Voters

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
-- Lucy Powell

#Government #Scotland #Voters

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
-- Lynn Westmoreland

#Hype #Voter Fraud #Voters

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
-- Mara Liasson

#Campaigns #Voters #Veteran

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen

#Winning #Political #Voters

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.
-- Mark McKinnon

#Winning #Perception #Voters

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.
-- Mark Steyn

#Abortion #Mind #Voters

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
-- Mary Cheney

#Wyoming #Levels #Voters

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.
-- Mia Love

#Thinking #People #Voters

History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
-- Michael Moritz

#Passion #Betrayed #Voters

They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.
-- Michele Bachmann

#Want #Voters #Republican

Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.
-- Mike Turzai

#Winning #Done #Voters

I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.
-- Miriam

#School #Quality #Voters

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

#Judging #Voters #Campaigns

Every voter is a Bharat Bhagya Vidhata.
-- Narendra Modi

#Democracy #Voters #Election

Voters memories will fade some.
-- Nate Silver

#Memories #Voters

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.
-- Nelson Mandela

#Voters #Way #Common

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
-- P. Chidambaram

#Issues #Voters #Doe

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one
-- Pat Sajak

#Trying #Voters #Firsts

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.
-- Patricia Hewitt

#Frustration #Voters #Needs

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.
-- Paul Weyrich

#Average #Voters #Seven

Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.
-- Paul Weyrich

#Issues #Judging #Voters

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
-- Paul Weyrich

#President #Voters #Legacy

At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?
-- Peggy Noonan

#Shoes #Rivers #Voters

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.
-- Phyllis Schlafly

#White #People #Voters

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
-- Polly Toynbee

#Fall #Voters #Example

When considering a candidate for office, almost right up until they enter the polling booth and sometimes even in the booth itself, most voters rely more on what they see and hear themselves in real time than on facts, history, logic, or learned experience.
-- Quin Hillyer

#Real #Office #Voters

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
-- Ralph Nader

#Want #Voters #Winner

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
-- Ralph Neas

#Believe #President #Voters

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.
-- Ray Price

#Men #Voters #He Man

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.
-- Ray Price

#Men #Voters #He Man

Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
-- Reed Hundt

#Tv News #Voters #Tvs

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.
-- Rich Lowry

#Voters #Bills #Conservative

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.
-- Richard J. Needham

#Drug #Voters #Politician

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.
-- Richard P. Bland

#Genius #Territory #Voters

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.
-- Rick Scott

#Citizens #Voters

The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.
-- Riordan Roett

#Believe #Secret #Voters

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.
-- Robbie Williams

#President #Voters #Idiot

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.
-- Robert Jackson Bennett

#Memories #Might #Voters

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

#Style #Important #Voters

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.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#Law #Risk #Voters

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.
-- Seth Rogen

#Voters #Taste #Oscars

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
-- Sonny Perdue

#Integrity #Common Sense #Voters

Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.
-- Steve King

#Obamacare #Voters #Republican

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

#Liberty #Voters #Fighter

We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter.
-- Terry Dill

#Valentine #Voters #Asking

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.
-- Theresa May

#What Matters #Government #Voters

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

#President #Supportive #Voters

The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,
-- Thurgood Marshall

#Issues #Voters #Messages

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
-- Tommy Lee Jones

#Political #Voters #World

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
-- Washington Allston

#Voters #Reputation #Popularity