Quotes About Voting

People think sometimes there is a 'Catholic vote' because of one particular issue. This demeans who we are as a Catholic community. We should take the whole thing... We take everything.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

Elections don't come cheap.

If you are going to vote in this country, you should be a citizen. To be a citizen in this country, you should know English.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Political operatives don't tend to be existentialists. They do know, however, that if a supporter doesn't vote, then his or her opinion does not make a sound - or a difference.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

In a democracy, people are supreme.

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.

But disaster doesn't sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, bravely, and with initiative in order to survive or save the neighbors, no matter how we vote or what we do for a living.

Here are some dates at which women were granted the vote:   New Zealand 1893 Australia 1902 Finland 1906 Norway 1913 United States 1920 Britain 1928 France 1945 Belgium 1946 Switzerland 1971 Kuwait 2006

There was white racism aplenty in Natchez, but most of it wasn't hateful, and it didn't preclude voting for a black man. It was subtler and more complex than that, and arguably more insidious because it was less easy to call out.

It is time for South Carolina to rejoin the Union. It is time to fall in step with the other states and to adopt the American way of conducting elections.… Racial distinctions cannot exist in the machinery that selects the officers and lawmakers of the United States.

It's a recurrent delusion that a change of government will make a difference.

oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.