Quotes About The Average Voter

#1. Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Elmer Davis

#2. The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

Joe Biden

#4. My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

Michael Baumgartner

#5. Andrea Leadsom flatly denies she has changed her CV.

Laura Kuenssberg

#6. The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Bill Kristol

#7. The banknote without a signature at the bottom is nothing but a worthless piece of paper. A few strokes of a pen confer on it all its value. The prayer of a poor child of Adam is a feeble thing in itself, but once endorsed by the hand of the Lord Jesus it accomplishes much.

J.C. Ryle

#8. To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

Jozef Pilsudski

#9. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

Myrna Loy

#10. What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

William Stafford

#12. Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

Richard Baxter

#13. One of the prisoners, Grigoryev, went mad as soon as he was untied, and never regained his sanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'

Stephen Covey

#15. Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Sigmund Freud

#16. To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

Zoltan Kodaly

#17. The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

Paul Weyrich

#18. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston S. Churchill

#19. Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

Chuck Schumer