Quotes About Voting

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

Nationwide about 1 in 7 black men are temporarily or permanently disenfranchised due to felon disenfranchisement laws.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Voting is a civic sacrament.

The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Hierarchy; large liberty of "voting" there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every exercise of the same. A most free commonwealth of "voters;" but with Eternal Justice to preside over it, Eternal Justice enforced by Almighty Power!

In New Mexico, we're very lucky that we have laws in place that really help ensure that Native Americans' right to vote is unencumbered.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.

When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'

As the cabinet members all said no, Lincoln had summarized: "Seven nays and one aye, the ayes have it"!

Plato thought that letting the people vote was like letting the passengers steer a ship – far better to let people who knew what they were doing take charge.

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of the population doesn't even bother voting because it looks meaningless. They're marginalized and properly distracted. At least that's the goal.

There's a very simple point about arithmetic—if you happen to be in a swing state, a state where the outcome is indefinite, and you don't vote for, say, Clinton, that's equivalent to voting for Trump. That's arithmetic.

The business of voting your conscience is: Do you really care just about how you feel? or, Do you care about what happens to the world? If you care about what you feel you don't have any conscience, you're not a moral agent at all, so stop talking about conscience, you don't have any.

Lesser evil voting should be simply called elementary rationality and elementary morality.

You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.

Women don't vote, so they don't have to pay attention to what we want. If we could vote, though, they'd have to pay attention, and they'd have to pass the laws we want.

I wonder why men always talk about politics? Mary speculated. I suppose, if we had votes, we should, too. I