Ballots Quote by Tom Tancredo

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes…

— Josh Homme

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“Any place where they got to vote on whether English is the official language don’t belong in the United States.”

— Patricia Cornwell

One of the reasons we require immigrants to learn English before they naturalize is that a person who cannot understand English will not be…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties…

— Ottmar Hitzfeld

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

— Novalis

If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially a problem…

— Steve Bullock

I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and…

— Maya Harris

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

— Johann Georg Hamann

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

— Victor Hugo