Quotes About Voting

Here in briefest form is the modern political dialectic. It is an unequal contest: the rich and the comfortable have influence and money. And they vote. The concerned and the poor have numbers, but many of the poor, alas, do not vote. There is democracy, but in no slight measure it is a democracy of the fortunate.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

so if you live in the United States, and you are reading this prior to November 2020, please do me a favor and (a) Register to vote, or check to make sure your registration is still valid, (b) Remember to vote on election day (or before if you take an early ballot) and (c) Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.

Then we caught the presidential debates. The people you folks elect are sort of scary.

if you live in the United States, and you are reading this prior to November 2020, please do me a favor and (a) Register to vote, or check to make sure your registration is still valid, (b) Remember to vote on election day (or before if you take an early ballot) and (c) Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos... John Scalzi October 31, 2019

Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.

One hundred thirty years after Abe Lincoln, re Republicans have got the anti-black vote and it's bigger than any Democratic Presidential candidate can cope with.

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

The director shook his head. "The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are." Peters

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are." Peters

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.