21 Reasons For Voting Smart

1. Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25.
…Mary Aim Tebedo, Colorado StateRepresentative.

2. If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it’s good enough for me.

…an Arkansas congressman.

3. I don’t know anyone here that’s been killed by a handgun.

…Louisiana representative Avery Alexander

4. There are still places where people think the function of the media is to provide information.

…Dan Rottenberg, Whitehouse Spokesperson

5. I can't believe we are going to let a majority of people decide what's best for this state.

…Louisiana Representative John Travis

6. Whaddaya mean nepotism? He's my brother!

…Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo after he hired his brother as fire commissioner

7. Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

…Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.

8. I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin, you never know if someone is recording what you say.

…Richard Nixon, US President

9. I hope that history will present me with maybe two words. One is peace. The other is human rights"

…Jimmy Carter, another US President

10. We don't want to open a box of Pandoras

…Governor Bruce King (D-NM)

11. The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe"

…Frank Rizzo, Mayor

12. If we don't watch our respective tails, the people are going to be running the government.

…State Sen Bill Cravens (R-Ca)

13. A zebra cannot change its spots.

…Al Gore, Bill Clinton Administration Vice President

14. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

…David Dinkins - Mayor NYC

15. What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

…Marion Barry - Mayor D.C.

16. Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.

…Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina

17. It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

…George Bush, US President

18. It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

…Al Gore, Vice President

19. That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it.

…A congressional candidate in Texas.

21. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

…Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.