Quotes About Voting

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in religious institutions almost every day of his adult life but never once told a congregation or gathering there for whom to vote.

No doubt life was hard for him—born with the instincts of a Hitler or Stalin in a country where people are determined to do their own voting.

Y fue así como «el Tigrillo» Noriega, el ministro de Gobierno que se había declarado a sí mismo «el único autorizado para dar los resultados», anunció a las tres de la madrugada que, en un giro de los hechos digno del realismo mágico que ha estado poniéndose en boga, Pastrana estaba ganándole a Rojas por 4.346 votos nomás

It follows that either desirable or undesirable behavior can be increased, at least to some extent, by drawing public attention to what others are doing. (Note to political parties: If you would like to increase turnout, please do not lament the large numbers of people who fail to vote.)*

It turns out that if you ask people, the day before the election, whether they intend to vote, you can increase the probability of their voting by as much as 25 percent!

I knew that he was using the Negro vote to control the city hall; in turn, he was engaged in vast political deals of which the Negro voters, political innocents, had no notion. With my pencil I wrote in a determined scrawl across the face of the ballots: I Protest This Fraud

There must have been a number of ballots marked 'no,'" he said. "But if there were, they were simply discarded. Only the 'yes' ballots counted in the official vote." His wry young face wrinkled with distress.

We won the right to be free citizens. And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out. That's what dignity's really about, if you'll excuse me, sir.

About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable." "No doubt." "Quite extraordinary the things that happen now. But that's what's meant by democracy, I suppose." Ogata-San gave a sigh. "These things we've learnt so eagerly from the Americans, they aren't always to the good." "No, indeed they're not.

She nodded. "They're counting again in California. Almost a million people voted, and the difference is about five thousand." "So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

It was going to be difficult for Maud to get out of the house alone. Like all upper-class ladies, she was not supposed to go anywhere unescorted. Men pretended this was because they were so concerned to protect their women, but in truth it was a means of control. No doubt it would remain until women won the vote.

Estas elecciones son demasiado importantes para que se decidan con un puñado de burlas.

For years we've been campaigning against the rule that women can't vote. That's the barrier. Once it's broken down, people will see further concessions as mere technicalities. It will be relatively easy to get the voting age lowered and other restrictions eased.

Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.