Quotes About Voting

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

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.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.