Quotes About Voting

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Numbers were catching up with the GOP. In time, with enough people of color, have-nots, single women, liberal urban men, and members of the LBGT bloc voting, the center-right paradigm would become center-left.

Russians can be unhappy, yet still loyal. Putin is to a large extent being rated not as a man, not even as a politician, but as an icon of Russia. To vote for him is not to endorse a program, but to express patriotism

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

Even now, with the expectation that a substantial percentage of newly naturalized aliens would vote for the Democratic Party's 2016 nominee for president, the Department of Homeland Security's Task Force on New Americans is reportedly focusing resources on urging 9 million green card holders (aliens and noncitizens) to become naturalized American citizens as quickly as possible, in hopes of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.65

The Colorado secretary of state testified before Congress in 2011 that a check of voter registration rolls against state [Division of Motor Vehicles] records indicated that more than 11,000 Colorado registered voters may not be U.S. citizens—and more than 5,000 of them voted."54

From 1836 to 1868, only one candidate was elected to the presidency more than once—Abraham Lincoln.

For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States Constitution, was illegitimate, since it lacked direct popular voting. "In theory the fundamental Law should have been more completely the people's law .

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, but I will not make that mistake again. The joke is over for Nader. He was funny once, but now he belongs to the dead.

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger 'cause I figured he can go back in the future. Put that in the act.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Bush gave an interview and he said people will vote for him because 'They've seen me weep, theyve seen me laugh, and theyve seen me hug.' These are the same qualifications for a Tickle Me Elmo.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.