Gary Johnson
Politician, Businessman
"A wasted vote is voting for someone that you don't believe in"
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong."
Harold Washington
Politician
"Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes."
John Lewis
Politician
"People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote."
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"Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!"
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"To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process."
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"How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?"
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"Votes should be weighed not counted."
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"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how."
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"Remember, vote for life. It may be your own."
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"It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us."
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"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
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"I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself."
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"Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes."
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"The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race."
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"More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote."
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"No-one ever votes Tory, do they?"
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"The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage."
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"Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place"
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"Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license."
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"Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining."
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"Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote."
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"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house."
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"I don't vote. I don't do no voting."
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