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Brad Carson Politician
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"I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them."

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Anne Campbell Activist
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"Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind."

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Renata Adler Author, Journalist
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"If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything."

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Scott Simon Journalist
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"Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed."

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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
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"Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains."

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