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General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.


Herbert M. Shelton


#politics #voting #food

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.


Alveda King


#cain #change #conservatives #democrats #demographic

Our way was to share a fire until it burned down, ayi? To speak to each other until every person was satisfied. Younger men listened to older men. Now the Beelezi tell us the vote of a young, careless man counts the same as the vote of an elder.' In the hazy heat Tata Ndu paused to take off his hat, turn it carefully in his hands, then replace it above the high dome of his forehead. No one breathed. 'White men tell us: Vote, bantu! They tell us: You do not all have to agree, ce n'est pas necessaire! If two men vote yes and one says no, the matter is finished. A bu, even a child can see how that will end. It takes three stones in the fire to hold up the pot. Take one away, leave the other two, and what? The pot will spill into the fire.


Barbara Kingsolver


#voting #life

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.


Thomas Jefferson


#election #presidency #president #us #usa

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.


Arlen Specter


#enormous #fundamental #our #returns #voting

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.


Eliot Spitzer


#blocs #exclusive #growing #inclusive #melting

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.


Jon Stewart


#bush #came #display #even #him

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.


Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero


#comes #common #common sense #great #maturity

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.


Alan Kay


#before #believe #demands #everyone #few