Quotes About Voting

Crackpots have a vote like everyone else...enough crackpots could vote a mayor into office.

How have a hundred men who wish for a master the right to vote on behalf of ten who do not? The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least. 6.

Born as I was the citizen of a free state and a member of its sovereign body, the very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs, however little influence my voice may have in them.

La loi de la pluralité des suffrages est elle-même un établissement de convention, et suppose au moins une fois l'unanimité.

had all thirteen families in Horse Mesa register to vote, and on election day, Jim drove me into Tortilla Flats. I kept the ballots in one hand and my pearl-handled revolver in the other, daring anyone to try to hijack democracy by stealing the twenty-six votes I had been entrusted with. "Hold on, everyone!" I declared when I arrived. "The votes from Horse Mesa are here, and I'm proud to announce we had one hundred percent turnout.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Here's the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

We want to show Singaporeans that if you vote in an opposition party, it doesn't mean your town is going to descend into chaos.

The opposition believes that we should allow people to vote without even showing a shred of identification. Canadians disagree.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

A lot of people don't want to vote because they believe the negatives rather than the positives about the outcome of their decisions about the sheriff or councilman or the board of education in their community.

You're guaranteed to have outcomes you like and outcomes you don't like in a democracy.

When choosing the president of the United States and the leader of the free world, your desire to have a beer with a candidate should be your last concern. Let's keep our president in the Oval Office and out of the bars.