"This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?"
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"Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote."
"I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready."
"People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless."
"But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic."
"The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector."
"The market is regarded as democratic because everybody has a vote. Of course, some have more votes than others because your votes depend on the number of dollars you have, but everybody participates and therefore it's called democratic."
"Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview."
"I used to vote Democrat."
"I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head."
"We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser."
"I recognize the inequities certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history of slavery. I know all those things. But I'm not a victim. I can vote, I can participate, I can invest my money, I can invest my time, and that's what I'm doing. I'm not working for anybody. I'm not making any money doing what I'm doing. I'm doing it because someone did it for me."
"I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways."
"In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race."
"Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought."
"I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote."
"I would vote for a Mormon."
"Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process."
"I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families."
"The Republicans are all about suppressing votes."