Quotes About Voting

We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

I could easily vote for things that benefit me taxwise, but the rest of my family is not in this tax bracket. So when I vote, I try to keep in mind my family and my community and what I think is best for the nation as a whole.

All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

It's not that people will vote for me only because I am a Bollywood star.

The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

While women were finally given the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the Republican Party began to pave the way for women's suffrage decades earlier.

It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

Congress leaders will now come to offer you money. I suggest you take the money but don't vote for them.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

especially in the United States, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote.

Los intentos descarados de suprimir a algunos votantes y el fraude electoral desbocado, el sabotaje a la democracia, constituyen a su vez un caso aparte en la Administración actual. No es que estas cosas no se hicieran en el pasado —por desgracia, son casi inherentes a la tradición estadounidense—, sino que nunca se habían hecho de manera tan implacable, con tanta precisión y tan flagrantemente.

ever observed that a choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom" and that the

The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, meretricious, inane—he threatened that he wouldn't be voting at all. The

Anyone who's willing to run, I'm not willing to vote for.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

As expected, the effect of facial competence on voting is about three times larger for information-poor and TV-prone voters than for others who are better informed and watch less television.

People voted for someone who looked strong and decisive without any other reason to believe that he was.

As expected, the effect of facial competence on voting is about three times larger for information-poor and TV-prone voters than for others who are better informed and watch less television. Evidently