Quotes About Voting

all the people have a right to vote, and no single man ever controls the destiny of any nation, either by divine right or by right of stupid votes of a stupid electorate.

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.

In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.

I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Israel's system of proportional representation rarely produces stable government.

A brand is only going to want to be more inclusive if they feel like it's going to be good for business as well as making the consumer feel good - so we have to encourage people to do that. Consumers have to stand up and say, 'I have power: my pound or dollar is how I vote.'

I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.