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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.


P. Chidambaram

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G. K. CHESTERTON The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
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JULIAN BOND Not from the average voter.
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DIAA RASHWAN We're certainly trying to focus on voter empowerment.
BRUCE S. GORDON No Minnesota voter under the age of 53 has ever been able to vote for Walter Mondale for Senate.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY We would like to see it picked up in other states, but we don't necessarily have millions on hand to...
GLENN BACKES The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the vote...
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LARRY WEBER Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER I don't believe there has been fraud. It's frustrating to me as a voter. This entire process is abou...
AMY WEINSHEIM In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.
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TOM O'NEIL You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON My reaction as a voter is to reach Hispanic voters in his district and get them to vote against him.
DAVID HERNANDEZ The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the t...
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JUSTIN LEVITT The mailing issue injured him tremendously. Because while he was beginning to get some voter recogni...
HANK SHEINKOPF I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intell...
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JALE BABA I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
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WILLIAM BROWN Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hisp...
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HEATHER SMITH We decided to make some investment in voter contact early on that will pay off through the campaign.
ALBERT MARTINEZ When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republi...
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TOMMY WEST I am not a one-issue voter in the sense that indicates I am an ignorant fundamentalist who only care...
JOSEPH BAYLY Everybody becomes an absentee voter.
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JASS STEWART This is so complicated for the voter to understand. And you only have 30 seconds to make a pitch.
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GARY BAUER I am disappointed that the Democratic leader Harry Reid has apparently urged his colleagues to vote ...
JEFF SESSIONS While our candidate could have suffered from problems of visibility given that she has been out of t...
JOSEPH OCHIENO I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID ...
ANDREW YOUNG Clerks want an opportunity to use the statewide voter checklist during an election before the House ...
ALISON KAISER The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
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NICOLE WILLIAMS I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get thos...
HERB ASHER A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
DAN QUAYLE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
ANONYMOUS We would basically be dropping one council position. Most of the other cities in the county have a m...
CURTIS CREWS But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
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TRACY WARD If you're not dealing with district issues, they won't vote for you again. You are not the only vote...
JANICE MONDAVI Final preparations have been concluded and the voter turnout is expected to be about 72 per cent, on...
EKACHAI WARUNPRAPHA A good start to increasing voter turnout is to stop disenfranchising half of the voters.
DEREK MITCHELL The unintended consequence of a (paper trail) mandate could diminish, rather than enhance, voter con...
CONNY MCCORMACK When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates app...
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS We'll also be providing voter education programs. In the meantime, we'll be keeping up the pressure ...
AERYCA STEINBAUER I'm sometimes astonished at how much the German voter can take of this.
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MARC VEASEY That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
PAT SAJAK It does make it difficult. I've had to struggle with taking special-interest money or grassroots mon...
DALE INMAN Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.
DONNA BRAZILE It's hard to catch in-person voter fraud,
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BRADLEY A. SMITH The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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P. J. O'ROURKE Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.
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P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore...
P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ...
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...
P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
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