Quotes About Voting

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, 'It's all over, don't bother trying to do anything, forget about voting, it won't make a difference,' and an optimist who says, 'Relax, everything is going to turn out fine.' Either way the results are the same. Nothing gets done.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Over the next period, the majority for Brexit will slowly vanish. In the three years between the Brexit referendum and the European Parliament elections in 2019, 1.26 million British citizens over 65 will die and 2 million will reach the voting age of 18, according to Age UK. Given that 70 per cent of young voters were in favour of Remain and 64 per cent of over-65s voted to Leave, the pro-European camp will increase by 1 million and the Brexit camp go down by 756,000.

Los idiotas mandan porque otros idiotas los eligen. Los idiotas mandan porque logran erigirse en una especie de diosecillos que siempre tienen la razón, dado que los apoya el pueblo y el pueblo nunca se equivoca.

I know we don't like to vote – marking your ballot nowadays is like choosing between the 3am showing of Beastmaster on Showtime and the 3am showing of Beastmaster 2 on Cinemax.

Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

Oy vermek bir ?eyleri de?i?tirseydi yasaklan?rd?.

as we all know from experience elections actually divide more than unite.

Irakl?lar ne zaman oy verme f?rsat? yakalasalar, yaÅŸamlar? pahas?na da olsa milyonlarcas? sand?k ba??na gidiyor. Ä°ntihar sald?r?lar?n?n ve bomba yüklü araçlar?n tehdidi alt?nda, seçim sand?klar?n?n önünde kuyruk oluÅŸturmay? kabul edecek baÅŸka bir halk var m?? Bu halk?n m? demokrasiyi istemediÄŸi söyleniyor?

Yeah," Joey muttered. "For one thing, she voted Republican. I can't stand that shit.

Democracy ends with the ballot box sealing

Democracy in the market does not need ballot boxes.

Part of the story is race. In poor southern states such as Mississippi, the rich-poor divide coincides with a racial divide, which, given the differences between the two parties on racial issues, will lead to a bigger difference between the voting patterns of rich and poor. Beyond this, race is tied into economic issues and policies: given the high correlation of income and race, redistribution often looks like a racial policy.

Individual income is a positive predictor and state average income is a negative predictor of Republican voting.

Rich voters are much more Republican than poor voters, especially in poor states, a pattern that emerged after 1990.

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

I very happily stand for the right of every man and woman in Pennsylvania to have their voice heard in elections. And when they do have their voice heard, it's nothing short of a privilege to welcome and respect that voice because this is a democracy, and that's what we do.