Quotes About Voting

Democracy is about electoral competition.

Remember to use your vote. Remember to speak out and feel empowered.

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

For me, every election is equally important. That is how I have approached all elections.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

1980, Leah and Sophie voted for Reagan. My father wouldn't speak to them for six months.

The American people have a nasty habit of waiting until it's far too late to start giving a shit. By and large, your average eligible voter tunes in to politics once every two or four years because they have been scared, shocked, bullied, cajoled, stimulated, seduced, suckered, or outright fear fucked by one or more extremities of the hideous mutant that is our electoral process.

With Saddam gone, any voting would install a Shiite majority. The Sunni wouldn't run Iraq again. That, at the bottom, caused the insurgency. Absent the genocide of Sunni Arabs, it would keep it going.

Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.

I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That's really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart.

I will not apologize ever, for any reason, for publishing the views of people who don't make a living in politics about why they plan to vote a certain way.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

Look, I support gay marriage from a policy/voting booth perspective. I also happen to think that gay marriage bans like Prop 8 are violations of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause. And I suspect including gay marriage under the umbrella of 'marriage' will strengthen families.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party and in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Porque tal es la ley de la democracia económica del mercado. Aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de un número menor de personas solo recaudan menos votos -dólares- que aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de más personas.