Quotes About Politics

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

Am I going to vote for Trump? Absolutely not. I do not believe in his platform.

I do vote, and naturally, I vote for so-called extremist parties, the further to the right the better, but that's where my participation in politics ends.

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.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.

I wouldn't vote for Obama.

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.

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

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

People vote based on emotion. Period.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

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

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

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.

If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations.