Quotes About Voting

There are times when democracy can be a disadvantage. There is an often-recounted and many-versioned story of the mercurial Doug Scott on K2. All versions end with Doug disagreeing with the others, who suggest that the matter be put to the vote. 'You know, youth,' replied Doug, 'democracy is a bit of a failure if you end up having to vote on it.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

Never before had so many citizens participated in an election.

Nine out of ten times in the House of Representatives, and eight out of ten times in the Senate, the candidate who spends the most money wins.

If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is to gamble that what we believe to be right will come out of the ballot with more votes behind it than what we believe to be wrong; and that is a gamble we will often lose.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets Ã¢â'¬â€œ which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

Embedded in Trumpism is the distinction between "people" and "the people." Not all people belong to "the people." More and more people emphatically do not belong—which is why Trump's absurd claims about illegal voting resonated so powerfully.

The inherent flaw with democratic elections is that they peddle the repulsive stink of neither/nor as the sultry perfume of either/or.

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

We vote every time we make a choice. We vote with our lives.

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God," Tony says when I pick up the phone.

States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting on whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.

It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election.

One of the people I voted for this morning was named Lee Botts. Her campaign slogan is HER BOTTOM LINE IS CLEAN WATER. Someone tampered with the sign she had in front of the school, and now it reads LEE BOTTS. HER BOTTOM IS CLEAN.

No one should believe those who surround "the ballot box with obstacles and sinuosities . . . intended to . . . defeat . . . the elective franchise.

feminist Abby Kelley to the executive committee by a tally of 557 to 451.

To fear the contagion of poverty is reasonable. To keep voting for policies that ensure the permanent existence of an underclass is what is meant by 'structural racism'.)

I mean, if you want to help old people, you know, well, vote for a different government, don't send them cans of spaghetti.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

Just telling women: If you don't speak up, things aren't gonna change. If you don't become an advocate, it's not gonna change. If you don't vote, it's not gonna change. If you don't run, it's not gonna change.