Quotes About Elections

Imagine how many people would not vote if they knew they were being recorded while they voted.

The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.

When 63 million people voted to elect Donald Trump as the president of the United States, it opened up the floodgates for toxic white masculinity in America.

The Congress and BJP both have refused to waive off farm loans from nationalised banks. I have shared that our party will do this if voted to power.

I have probably never voted for a straight ticket in my life, and I am a Democratic U.S. senator.

I have never voted in any election - I usually have more important things to do, especially since I've had kids.

I voted in elections - probably like a lot of people - but I didn't really pay that much attention to politics. But there was something that happened in 2016, and I think people were reawakened in this country.

When I had won the elections two times, the atmosphere of Rampur was completely different. But the BJP's Hindu vote, they always voted for me and ensured my win.

I can't remember the last time, if ever, I voted for a Republican, you know.

Why do the people in Massachusetts need to have a superdelegate speak on their behalf when they've already voted?

Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

I have said this before: I'm an Independent, I have voted for both parties.

I've voted in a Republican primary in the past. That's something unique to Texas and a handful of other states, that we don't register as Republicans or Democrats. We vote in whichever primary we think it's more critical at the time.

I never voted for a Democrat at the state or national level.

I'm a bit of a floating voter actually - I've voted for all parties.

Part of the reason voter suppression works is we've created this culture that says you don't challenge the outcome of elections unless the act is so egregious as to be absolutely clear on its face.

Requirements for an ID are not voter suppression - they are just commonsense steps to ensure people don't vote if they are ineligible, don't vote using false identities and don't vote more than once.

We forget that the main constitutional responsibility of the MLAs and MPs that we vote for is law making, and oversight of the executive to implement those laws. During my husband's 2014 election campaign, I did not hear a single voter mention this aspect of the legislator's role.

The silent voter, interestingly, has always been the voter for AAP.

With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.