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My vote is my secret.

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if youre not playing by the rules, youre taking a big risk.

Nobody's going to vote for Isis.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Obamacare is a failure but you're going to need 60 votes to change preexisting conditions - other things to make the system work and that's the problem of repealing and replacing, is you can't do it because it's a broken system.

November 8th, we'd better be careful, because that election is going to be rigged. People are going to walk in and they're going to vote 10 times, maybe, who knows?

Once you convince people that they're victims, you really own them because you've just told them that whatever problems they have in life, it's not their fault. And then you're telling them they can't fix them by themselves. Look at your life. Your life sucks. You're a victim of these people here, you can't fix it. You need us looking out for you. "Us" being the Democrat Party in this case, the people that go out and get votes.

Once I heard about the electronic voting machines, and how they weren't gonna be audited, and no one would be able to go in and verify what the votes were. And then the exit poll thing - wasn't that kind of weird? How the exit polls didn't match up to the voting... I feel like, you know, they dropped a couple lines of code in here and there, and swung a couple states in their direction.

One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.

Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

See, I am the mayor of Realville, and science is not up to a vote. It either is or isn't. Whatever it is, it is or isn't, but it's not up to a vote. Global warming doesn't exist because a "consequences of scientists" agree. Manmade global warming either is happening or it isn't, but it isn't up to a vote. But it is being presented to you as a consequences of scientists. Therefore, the science is not settled. Besides that, we all know that it's a hoax now. It's just some people don't want to accept that, but it is.

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

Someone asked me "what do you think of Donald Trump?" And I said, "I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail." If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Sometime in the near future we'll have a vote on repealing Obamacare, essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal there's a two-year delay, a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our Democratic friends.

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

That's Donald Trump negotiating position. "Okay. If we can't vote to repeal Obamacare, I'm standing by and I'm letting it die. I'm letting it implode. I'm gonna let it fail, and it's on the Democrats, and I'll make sure everybody knows it's on the Democrats. I am not gonna own this sucker. It isn't mine. I had nothing to do with it. I've engaged in good-faith efforts to fix this and people aren't interested.

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

That was very appreciative because all the players vote for that. That's the highest award anyone can get in the NFL. Every team in the NFL votes for the most valuable player. I was injured. I had appendicitis the first part of the season, but I came back after ten days. Nobody came back that early. No player wants to sit on the bench. No player wants to be inactive. Everybody wants to play.I came back in ten days. I had the uniform on and played. I played those next games until I got kicked in the head.

That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.

The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people are so afraid of, say, Muslims and extremism?

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.