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> [ I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend \[excessively\] - they have the power to print money and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-munger/i-think-democracies-are-prone-to-inflation-because-politicians-will/)

[Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-munger/)

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> [And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-cuellar/and-as-you-recall-last-year-people-were-asking-us-don-t-vote-on-the/)

[Henry Cuellar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-cuellar/)

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> [If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jay-chapman/if-american-politics-does-not-look-to-you-like-a-joke-a-tragic-dance/)

[John Jay Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jay-chapman/)

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> [I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-robinson/i-guess-you-d-call-me-an-independent-since-i-ve-never-identified/)

[Jackie Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-robinson/)

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> [What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-brooks/what-s-wrong-with-leading-the-way-we-ve-played-that-role-before-after/)

[Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-brooks/)

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> [I get to vote in the Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories every year.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-fricker/i-get-to-vote-in-the-best-supporting-actress-best-supporting-actor/)

[Brenda Fricker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-fricker/)

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> [With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-massa/with-the-departure-of-congressman-neil-abercrombie-d-who-is-running/)

[Eric Massa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-massa/)

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> [I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-albright/i-have-certain-issues-i-support-women-candidates-but-i-cannot-support/)

[Madeleine Albright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-albright/)

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> [You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-massa/you-think-that-somehow-they-didn-t-come-after-me-to-get-rid-of-me/)

[Eric Massa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-massa/)

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> [ Clive \[Davis\] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song- or as he says, ‘putting some balls into it'-… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clay-aiken/clive-davis-tried-to-tell-me-that-saying-certain-words-in-a-song-or/)

[Clay Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clay-aiken/)

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> [Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/liberty-calls-to-us-again-we-must-follow-her-further-we-must-trust/)

[Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-george/)

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> [The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-evans/the-reason-so-many-believers-are-struggling-is-that-we-have-voted-in/)

[Tony Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-evans/)

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> [The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rush-limbaugh/the-senate-was-the-equivalent-of-an-aristocracy-at-the-beginning/)

[Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rush-limbaugh/)

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> [Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-b-pinn/churches-can-easily-bring-together-in-a-short-period-of-time-a/)

[Anthony B Pinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-b-pinn/)

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> [ The future of the United States and the most important election in a generation, and he \[Donald Trump\] is trying to con… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitt-romney/the-future-of-the-united-states-and-the-most-important-election-in-a/)

[Mitt Romney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitt-romney/)

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> [We have a whole lot of the president-elect's nominees that have not filled out their ethics disclosures. I can never remember a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-leahy/we-have-a-whole-lot-of-the-president-elect-s-nominees-that-have-not/)

[Patrick Leahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-leahy/)

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> [I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-will/i-sometimes-think-that-when-he-was-at-harvard-law-school-mr-obama-cut/)

[George Will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-will/)

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> [What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/what-the-us-does-is-the-kind-of-thing-i-described-in-italy-in-1948/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliot-spitzer/the-tea-party-isolated-mitt-romney-from-mainstream-voters-linking-him/)

[Eliot Spitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliot-spitzer/)

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> [There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-o-malley/there-are-some-rights-that-are-so-fundamental-to-our-society-that-you/)

[Martin O'Malley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-o-malley/)

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> [There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitt-romney/there-are-47-percent-of-the-people-who-will-vote-for-the-president-no-3/)

[Mitt Romney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitt-romney/)

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> [A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-adams/a-single-assembly-is-apt-to-grow-ambitious-and-after-a-time-will-not/)

[John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-adams/)

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> [Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/democracy-is-one-person-one-vote-and-a-full-discussion-of-the-issues/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-wolf/if-you-re-going-to-vote-on-a-television-contract-there-is-a-certain/)

[Dick Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-wolf/)

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> [the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-right-to-marry-whoever-one-wishes-is-an-elementary-human-right/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-j-o-rourke/new-hampshire-polling-data-are-unreliable-because-when-you-call-the/)

[P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-j-o-rourke/)

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> [There's all kind of evidence that there is enormous corruption in the distribution of that money. For example, they gave about $100…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akbar-ganji/there-s-all-kind-of-evidence-that-there-is-enormous-corruption-in-the/)

[Akbar Ganji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akbar-ganji/)

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> [A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-majority-vote-is-not-an-epistemological-validation-of-an-idea/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [I'd make - before I'd elect somebody - I'd make him do town meetings and face the people and then I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arlen-specter/i-d-make-before-i-d-elect-somebody-i-d-make-him-do-town-meetings-and/)

[Arlen Specter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arlen-specter/)

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> [If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-tancredo/if-in-fact-one-cannot-understand-english-and-at-the-point-in-time/)

[Tom Tancredo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-tancredo/)

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> [The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-graham-sumner/the-forgotten-man-delving-away-in-patient-industry-supporting-his/)

[William Graham Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-graham-sumner/)

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> [Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-leno/twenty-one-years-ago-today-saddam-hussein-was-first-elected-president/)

[Jay Leno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-leno/)

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> [Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruben-aguilar/even-if-not-one-migrant-turns-out-to-vote-this-was-a-historic-debt/)

[Ruben Aguilar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruben-aguilar/)

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> [Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/honestly-this-is-not-going-to-change-unless-the-people-who-want-to/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/we-have-prayed-we-have-coaxed-we-have-begged-for-the-vote-with-the/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [Nine-tenths of the people are at present freeholders... The time is not distant when this country will abound with mechanics and manufacturers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gouverneur-morris/nine-tenths-of-the-people-are-at-present-freeholders-the-time-is-not/)

[Gouverneur Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gouverneur-morris/)

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> [Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juvenal/already-long-ago-from-when-we-sold-our-vote-to-no-man-the-people-have/)

[Juvenal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juvenal/)

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> [Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-perlstein/black-fergusonians-have-shown-that-they-will-vote-when-they-have/)

[Rick Perlstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-perlstein/)

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> [“The unfortunate reality is that, even today, too many citizens have reason to fear that their right to vote, their access to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ari-berman/the-unfortunate-reality-is-that-even-today-too-many-citizens-have/)

[Ari Berman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ari-berman/)

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> [Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kent-hovind/since-all-taxpayers-are-being-forced-to-fund-the-religion-of/)

[Kent Hovind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kent-hovind/)

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                        "text": "Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?",
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