Quotes About Influence

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

Teens say there's nothing I can do because I have no vote. The truth is, the only vote that matters is how you spend your money and who you give it to. Each coin is giving power. Notice and be careful who you give your power to.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

People vote based on emotion. Period.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.

Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority.

If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.

I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

If you don't vote, you don't count.

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.