To have accountability you must get out and vote!


Billy Bragg

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I want to take this opportunity to ask for your vote and support. Together we can make a difference....
JOE BACON
Accountability: If I vote an idiot into power ... who is to blame?
EDMAN VAN SCHALKWYK
They generally come out and say, Billy if you continue on, you're going to get one. It's very clear ...
BILLY DONOVAN
Alright guys, I want to get out there and vote tomorrow. And not because it's cool, because it's not...
JON STEWART
The accountability must be there.
GARY WADLER
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don&...
NIKKI REED
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get...
HENRY JAMES
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get...
HENRY JAMES
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
BARBARA MIKULSKI
If we don't use our right to vote, the country heads for apathy. Get out there and cast your vote.
NIKKALA
In all of the conversations that we've had with Billy, we've told him that we would like to have him...
ED WADE
I just think it was really wrong. Now we just have to get people out to vote.
HELEN LEE
When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta hav...
GARY TAAFFE
I just wanted to get all this stuff in one place, ... A lot of it was scattered around or out of pri...
NATALIE MERCHANT
It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of th...
EMMELINE PANKHURST
You guys saw him take Billy Wagner. I can't throw as hard as Billy. He's going to hit a fastball. Yo...
SCOTT LINEBRINK
They wanted to get Republican or Republican-leaning people out to vote.
BILL PLANTE
But he can't go out on the court and play. We have to take some accountability as players.
ADRIAN GRIFFIN
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vot...
BOB WEIR
This product will drive vendor accountability. If this works out well and right then all products wi...
AJIT SANCHETI
Communication leads to buy-in which fosters ownership and accountability. Accountability gives you r...
EDITH HUNTER
Anytime you have sessions like this coming together, people are going back talking. The word is mult...
RICHARD KLINE
Some people don't believe their vote counts when they vote for candidates. If you have people who ar...
DANE WATERS
You'd always like to see more people get out and vote. We don't represent ourselves very well when w...
BILL DODSON
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
KALPANA CHAWLA
You can't speed up a pitcher. Bart has to get his arm ready and he has to be able to get his body re...
BUD BLACK
I think there is an orderly and dignified way to find out what happened. And, if there was a legal v...
RUSS FEINGOLD
I made an effort the last few days to get people out to vote.
BRIAN BAUER
This is why privatization is a failed experiment. Ultimately, when you're trying to get accountabili...
ALMA GONZALEZ
A song is like a newspaper. It's capable of carrying a number of different messages. Some of them ar...
BILLY BRAGG
A part of my job is to bring the news from elsewhere to here and to take back some news from here. ....
BILLY BRAGG
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
BILLY BRAGG
Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,
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Mermaid Avenue Vol. II,
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The thing about Strummer was he walked it like he talked it, ... He didn't cop out. He didn't show o...
BILLY BRAGG
And since September 11 and the war with Iraq, I think people are more attuned to music that's got so...
BILLY BRAGG
They were the true inheritors of the mantle of The Clash.
BILLY BRAGG
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
BILLY BRAGG
That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians...
BILLY BRAGG
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, bu...
BILLY BRAGG
I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho...
BILLY BRAGG
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
BILLY BRAGG
You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a ...
BILLY BRAGG
And just because you're gay, I won't turn you away.
If you stick around, I'm sure we can find so...
BILLY BRAGG
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportun...
BILLY BRAGG
The revolution is just a T-shirt away.

- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward
BILLY BRAGG
Welcome to what we're calling 'I'll Be Your Bobby Tonight'.
BILLY BRAGG
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage tro...
BILLY BRAGG
We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
BILLY BRAGG
That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world....
BILLY BRAGG
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
BILLY BRAGG
My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
BILLY BRAGG
Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go ...
BILLY BRAGG
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved...
BILLY BRAGG
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro...
BILLY BRAGG
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
BILLY BRAGG
I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
BILLY BRAGG
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come...
BILLY BRAGG
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona...
BILLY BRAGG
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ...
BILLY BRAGG
By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ...
BILLY BRAGG
But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou...
BILLY BRAGG
So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t...
BILLY BRAGG
I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
BILLY BRAGG
All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real ...
BILLY BRAGG
An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
BILLY BRAGG
The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a jo...
BILLY BRAGG
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

- ...
BILLY BRAGG
We must get out of the boat, but don't get out before He tells you to walk or you might sink.
DEBRA ROBERTS
He always calls me up and says, it's 'Billy The Kid. He's going to have to say it's 'Billy The Coach...
RICK PITINO
Billy Wilder used to say, 'The best movies have a tiny bitter pill that you want the audience to swa...
ARIE POSIN
I think it was actually good for the nation, spurring recognition that every vote counts. We realize...
MAX MILLER
Will Al Gore get the black vote? Yeah. Will Gore have to worry and make sure those voters turn out? ...
DAVID BOSITIS
It's just a chance for people to get together and mingle and have a good time. And to tell the story...
MARGUERITE THOMAS
You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to...
CHUCK ZITO
No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
GARY ACKERMAN
If they like the way things have gone, go for the status quo. If they want serious change, vote for ...
MARSHALL COOK
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
ED MARKEY
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy C...
STEVE MARTIN
We now have five Catholics on the Supreme Court. Must they vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?
TIM RUSSERT
One day, Billy sat home
after work and prayed,
'Why oh why did you create me
this way...
ELISE ICTEN
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. ...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
It was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. It's Billy Joel - what else do you have to say?
JOSH DAVIS
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a pla...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
GARY ACKERMAN
It's ridiculous. How can you have 75% of the people vote themselves out of a job?
BOB ROSE
It doesn't matter if we have a crooked electoral council, ... We have to go out and vote.
HENRY RAMOS
You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for wha...
CARL LEWIS
You must get dirty in the trenches to come out with loyal soldiers
GABRIEL REZENDE
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to ra...
MOTHER JONES
One thing Billy knew that most people don't know is that the longer you have a wish, the closer you ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
It is part of the railroad business. But it is a setback. We are usually running seven days a week o...
WENDY SQUIRES
We have made headway at improving the standards and accountability for setting high expectations for...
JOHN AUSTIN
We must instill moral conviction that the people are the government. We have a moral obligation to v...
DUKE BURGE
We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the ...
DON STEWART
It's not my job to get people to vote. My job is to make customers go out and have fun. I don't want...
JACKIE WAGNER
Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered...
RAGHURAM RAJAN
We must be sure that every vote that is cast is a vote that's counted,
NANCY PELOSI
Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote.
CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the ...
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My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
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I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters fro...
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I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at al...
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I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
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I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come...
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own persona...
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By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which ...
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But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wou...
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
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If no one seems to understand
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I'm not a bro.
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This guy was so large, he had his own climate.
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I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
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[Does Joel feel a particular resonance with any of this year's other nominees? Sure, he says -- Paul...
BILLY JOEL
Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should...
BILLY JOEL
I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewh...
BILLY JOEL
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun
BILLY JOEL
Don't go trying some new fashionDon't change the color of your hair. . . .I could not love you any b...
BILLY JOEL
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
BILLY JOEL
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing ch...
BILLY JOEL
The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik...
BILLY HERMAN
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other ...
BILLY GRAHAM
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER
Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ...
BILLY ECKSTINE
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and...
BILLY CORGAN
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It&#...
BILLY COLLINS
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER
Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplatin...
BILLY CRYSTAL
The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...
BILLY GRAHAM
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
BILLY SUNDAY
I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.
BILLY WEST
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
BILLY ZANE
You can't be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zepp...
BILLY CORGAN
A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we ...
BILLY CORGAN
For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done alright.
BILLY CORGAN
The band is basically modeled upon what we call like a Beatles ideal, which is that the band is abou...
BILLY CORGAN
For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to b...
BILLY CORGAN
Well, what we usually do is in every city we got to, we hire a fifteen-year-old boy and we turn it u...
BILLY CORGAN
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
BILLY CORGAN
I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.
BILLY CORGAN
By starlight, I'll kiss you, and promise to be your one and only. I'll make you feel happy and lea...
BILLY CORGAN