Quotes About Voting

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

For we put the power in the people.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... 'We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.' So they begin to ask: 'What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

He never made the ten-most-wanted list. It's very unfair voting. It's who you know.

In the North, they do it a different way. They have a system that's known as gerrymandering.... It means when Negroes become too heavily concentrated in a certain area, and begin to gain too much political power, the white man comes along and changes the district lines.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

If we don't cast a ballot, it's going to end up in a situation where we're going to have to cast a bullet. It's either a ballot or a bullet.

In Texas, thirty-six out of the 86 "winning" GOP statehouse candidates faced no general election opponent. In Tennessee, thirty-seven of the 75 winning GOP candidates "won" without opposition. Florida, thirty-four out of 85. Add it all up, and even with all that was at stake in these states in 2022, millions of Americans had no choice when it came to who represented them in their statehouse. For those millions, democracy at the legislative level was indeed canceled.

Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don't. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form of government.

I believe in full disclosure and complete transparency. The American people should know as much as they can about a candidate before entering the ballot box.

Like lemmings voting for steeper cliff faces

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

In Washington, Prescott Bush voted consistently with the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He was stalwart on civil rights and a staunch advocate of repealing the discriminatory provisions of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. Prescott

It's our job to look at the issues and elect people. Once we've done that, that's our part over with. It's not up to us to run the country.

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.