Quotes About Choice

That's all I've managed as far as freedom is concerned, to get rid of the people and the things I don't like. After that, there isn't all that much left!

But for once I thought, let someone else do it! And that is how we lose control over our own destinies.

He offered a stool next to his, but I went and sat in the old ladder-back chair beside the empty fire instead, a piece of furniture I have held on to throughout my adult life and that for reasons I have forgotten I had chosen to put there, in the second place. Perhaps it had reminded me too much of the life before Tony

Theo said it sounded like the problem was that she had chosen the wrong dog in the first place. He himself had a pug, he said, and he had never experienced any difficulties.

Ms. Doman had this whole thing about how we have to tell stories about whatever happens to us, and then we can use those stories to decide whether out lives are happy or not, whether events have redeeming aspects or are totally hopeless, that it's really all about how we choose to shape and name things.

Because sometimes in life, Ken didn't always choose Barbie. (Jane Alcott)

Because sometimes in life Ken doesn't always choose Barbie.

Music is only work when someone else makes you do it.

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get 'yes' or 'no' votes. Your whole job is to either say 'yes' or 'no' and explain why.

The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate - there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.