Quotes About Awareness

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.

Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

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.

If you're a Texas Supreme Court Justice hopscotching across 254 counties, trying to tattoo your name onto the noggins of millions of voters, you must find creative ways to raise visibility and build awareness. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are low-cost but high-yield ways to leverage the support of key influencers and opinion leaders.

Voters are smarter than Republicans think they are.

Security is a human problem.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

Death always seems to be around me.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

Harry Dean Stanton

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I try not to get too self-absorbed.