"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
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"Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens."
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"You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy."
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"President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future."
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"You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote."
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"If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation."
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"A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting."
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"If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease."
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"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
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"A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders."
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"Donald Trump has been about we, the people. I just wanted to counter that sound bite because that's part of the problem, bad sound bites. He's been about we the people. If he were just about Donald Trump, you wouldn't have had 14 million people voting for him."
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"As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'"
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"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision."
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"In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion."
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"My vote is my secret."
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"A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law."
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"The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
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"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."
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"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
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"In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible."
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