Quotes About Voting

It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.

We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

If you've seen the 'Shawshank Redemption' and if you think Morgan Freeman's character should have died in prison, vote for the other person. And if you think, and you believe in redemption, and a second chance, you know, I'm your candidate.

If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

Here's the facts: We've got to have I.D. to go vote, you have to show an I.D. to buy alcohol, you have got to show an I.D. need to buy tobacco, and you have to show and have a driver's license to drive.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

You can't ask other people to believe you and vote for you if you don't back yourself.

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.