Political Quotes

John Merrill

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Quotes by year · 2016202013 total · peak 2019 (10)
2016: 1 quote2017: 1 quote2019: 10 quotes2020: 1 quote
May 12, 2019

There is no future for early voting as long as I am Secretary of State.

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May 12, 2019

If you are too sorry or lazy to get up off your rear and to go register to vote, then you don't deserve that privilege. As long as I am Secretary of State of Alabama, you are going to have to show some initiative to become a registered…

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May 7, 2019

At one time, our laws were written to reduce or eliminate minority participation in the electoral process.

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May 7, 2019

Much like Thomas Jefferson suggested that that government which governs best governs least. That is the sum of good government.

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May 7, 2019

In Michigan, we have taken steps to modernize and safeguard our voter registration database, the backbone of our election administration system.

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May 7, 2019

Tomorrow, Secretary Merrill, a Republican, and myself, a Democrat, are leading a bipartisan group of Secretaries of State to visit Selma, Alabama.

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Feb 12, 2019

Voter confidence and voter participation is extraordinarily important.

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Feb 12, 2019

Significant Federal overreach has been indicated through the introduction of this legislation.

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Feb 12, 2019

The only people that need to be voting in U.S. elections are United States citizens.

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Feb 12, 2019

A good election security bill would be one that would create the necessary resources to the States without creating unfunded or underfunded mandates.

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Dec 27, 2017

We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in Alabama.

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Nov 2, 2016

These people fought--some of them were beaten, some of them were killed--because of their desire to ensure that everybody that wanted to had the right to register to vote and participate in the process. I'm not going to cheapen the work…

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