#voting

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day. ↗

— David Byrne

#day #decrepit #great #joint #leveler

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bloc #christians #decades #evangelical #ignored

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.' ↗

— Howie Carr

#basically #ever #fact #go #huge

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#bring #complicated #opinions #set #voting

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees. ↗

— John Cornyn

#being used #bipartisan #blocks #here #i

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#alike #come #continued #done #guidance

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#allows #american #american people #country #go

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. ↗

— John Ensign

#believe #building #community #country #first

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable. ↗

— Richard Gere

#because #bush #george #george bush #gore

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#debt limit #gone #historically #limit #majority