Quotes About Voting

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.

It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

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

In this country people don't vote for, they vote against.

2. People who promise things that they never give are like clouds and wind that bring no rain: do not be misled by promises. 3. Your vote is your power: use it to make a difference to your life and your country.

a pamphlet that she'd been handed when she was visiting an African country where people were able to vote freely for the first time. The pamphlet was called The Ten Commandments for Voters,

1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only you and your God know how you vote. 2. People who promise things that they never give are like clouds and wind that bring no rain: do not be misled by promises. 3. Your vote is your power: use it to make a difference to your life and your country.

1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only you and your God know how you vote. 2.