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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

Best, Democracy, Against

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy

Ignorance, Democracy, Security

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory

Marriage, Political, Made

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh

Opinion, Another, Used

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle

Low, Polls, Fewer

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

Life, Trust, Future

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
Ralph Nader

Trust, Money, Government

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra Streisand

Family, Through, Arrogance

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
Karl Rove

Whatever, Word, Liberal

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Al Gore

Low, Polls, Fewer

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.
Jennifer Granholm

Person, Democracy, Support

'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

Life, Faith, Work

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.
Charles Schumer

Pretty, Tough, Far

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

Political, Position, Spokesman

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland

Trust, Public, Chief

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

Before, Times, Point

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

Vote, Hear, Fraud

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

Off, Citizen, Kicked

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
Jeff Miller

Time, History, Political

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

Education, Freedom, School

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland

Women, Vote, Personal

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
Wavy Gravy

Life, Focus, Beyond

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

Exist, Laws, Voters

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

Percent, Elections, Appalling

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
Bill Kristol

Give, Path, Vote

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

Politics, Time, Done

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
Dick Morris

Getting, Point, Guy

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.
Malcolm Wallop

Crazy, Acceptance, American

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
Bob Schaffer

After, Whole, Makes

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

Integrity, Sense, Step

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