Quotes About Voters

#1. My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

Helen Suzman

#2. I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

Barry Bonds

#3. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#4. You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

James Hansen

#5. They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Kenneth Blackwell

#6. Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

Frank Luntz

#7. I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.

Mitt Romney

#8. The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

Noam Chomsky

#9. People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

Tom Snyder

#10. Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

Terry Branstad

#11. These assumptions lead progressives into other traps: assuming that hard facts will persuade voters, that voters are "rational" and vote in their self-interest and on the issues, and that negating a frame is an effective way to argue against it. 5.

George Lakoff

#12. I think voters are very sophisticated, very strategic. They know that Hillary Clinton can be beaten. And so they will look at Donald Trump, and they will look at Marco Rubio, they will look at Ted Cruz, and maybe John Kasich and say, "Who can beat her? Who's the best matchup?"

Hugh Hewitt

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

Elmer Davis

#14. Those who are inspired are willing to pay a premium or endure inconvenience, even personal suffering. Those who are able to inspire will create a following of people - supporters, voters, customers, workers - who act for the good of the whole not because they have to, but because they want to.

Simon Sinek

#15. While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Thomas E. Mann

#16. It's not only the British voters who have doubts about European cooperation. There is skepticism in many other E.U. countries.

Mark Rutte

#17. Labour voters are crying out for effective leadership.I'm afraid I don't think Jeremy [Corbyn]can provide it.

Jeremy Corbyn

#18. Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Mike Huckabee

#19. A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Ron Fournier

#20. In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

Jitin Prasada

#21. [Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.

Chris Matthews

#22. Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

Robert Teeter

#23. Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Ron Fournier

#24. The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Charles B. Rangel

#25. I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

Robert Casey

#26. Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.

Paul Weyrich

#27. With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

Joe McGinniss

#28. The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

Rush Limbaugh

#29. Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

Zephyr Teachout

#30. Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

Richard J. Needham

#31. In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

Lucy Powell

#32. How, then, did Virginia gentlemen persuade the voters to return the right kind of people to the House of Burgesses? How could patricians win in populist politics? The question can lead us again to the paradox which has underlain our story, the union of freedom and slavery in Virginia and America.

Edmund S. Morgan

#33. The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

Jeff Cooper

#34. What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters - specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.

Bryan Caplan

#35. American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

Ron Paul

#36. As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation.

Loretta Napoleoni

#37. Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

James Carville

#38. French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck.

Thomas L. Friedman

#39. The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.

Joe Andrew

#40. The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

Jonathan Gruber

#41. I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Mia Love

#42. The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Learned Hand

#43. You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken ... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#44. The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

Charles A. Beard

#45. For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

Theresa May

#46. The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

John Sununu

#47. A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

Conan O'Brien

#48. Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

Rush Limbaugh

#49. The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

John Green

#50. There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

Dick Morris

#51. Our democratic dogma has leveled not only all voters but all leaders; we delight to show that living geniuses are only mediocrities, and that dead ones are myths. If

Will Durant

#52. My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.

Kathryn Lasky

#53. I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.

Michele Bachmann

#54. In many states, voters didn't get to choose their own members of Congress. Members of Congress got to choose their own voters.

Ian Millhiser

#55. You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-one grassroots campaigning here, even if you have the most money.

Kelly Ayotte

#56. Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#57. I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

Tammy Baldwin

#58. Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn, one a political scientist and the other an economist, argue that "approval voting" allows voters to express their true preferences without concern for electability.8 Under approval voting, each voter may vote for as many candidates as he wishes.

Avinash K. Dixit

#59. Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Cynthia McKinney

#60. Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

Tamara Keith

#61. I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.

David Harsanyi

#62. The key question for many voters is: How much is the candidate offering for my vote?

James Bovard

#63. There are some voters who are rather traditional and have some reservations about electing a woman leader. But the younger generation are excited to have a woman leader for the country. They think it is somewhat trendy.

Tsai Ing-wen

#64. Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Paul Weyrich

#65. Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.

Argus Hamilton

#66. A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.

Jill Lepore

#67. The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Harold Holzer

#68. Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.

Kevin Madden

#69. Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Jeb Bush

#70. In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.

Byron York

#71. Voters memories will fade some.

Nate Silver

#72. I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

Rick Perry

#73. I'm never going to become an expert on how you get delegates. I think what you've got to do is follow the will of voters.

Rick Scott

#74. Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

Fredrik Bajer

#75. Look at Jeb Bush, $115 million and Jeb actually stated in December 2014 that he was going to win this primary by not winning it. He was going to win it without winning base voters. They have made it clear they want nothing of their base. They're embarrassed of their base.

Rush Limbaugh

#76. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Mark McKinnon

#77. King not only encouraged church members to become registered voters and NAACP leaders but also to see the Southern Jim Crow system as part of a passing global order of colonialism and imperialism.

Troy Jackson

#78. It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Abraham Lincoln

#79. Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

Will Durst

#80. In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

Sigourney Weaver

#81. Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Ron Fournier

#82. The most famous case was the so-called Bradley effect: in 1982, California voters told exit pollsters they had elected a black governor, Tom Bradley, by a significant margin, but in the privacy of the ballot box they had actually given his white opponent a narrow victory.

Anonymous

#83. Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.

Ronald Kessler

#84. The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.

Ludwig Von Mises

#85. Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

Harold Holzer

#86. Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

Gene Green

#87. I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

Theresa May

#88. I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Jitin Prasada

#89. I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Kesha Rogers

#90. The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

Calvin Trillin

#91. What the voters told us in the 2010 election was that they wanted a change. And I believe a moderate approach with a dedication to working across the aisle, something I know is important to both me and Congressman Shuler, is the best way forward.

Joe Donnelly

#92. CNN has given me a platform to share my experiences. My Web site, YouTube Channel and Facebook page have exposed me to thousands of voters who share my concerns. My lack of seniority has not impeded my ability to communicate in any way.

Jason Chaffetz

#93. Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'

Conan O'Brien

#94. Didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

Josh Earnest

#95. Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Blanche Lincoln

#96. In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

John Lewis

#97. As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in the eye.

Daniel Pfeiffer

#98. Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.

Jim Talent

#99. We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.

John McCain

#100. I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

Robbie Williams