Quotes About Voting

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women's health care, you have to vote.

Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.

What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

I'm not going to vote for Donald Trump. There's no way I would vote for him under any circumstance. However, I think that the protesters may as well send him some money, because I think they're going to push people into his camp.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.

What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.

Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be able to see how those acting on their behalf vote on all issues, including remuneration.

It's important that we vote, because this is how we can bring about change and bring about reform, and, honestly, I don't see Donald Trump, anything that he's saying to be effective or comprehensive. Instead of really uniting our country - we are the United States of America - he is dividing us.

If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

Sharpton and Jackson are 'race brokers.' Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. 'Black enough' is just another tool in the bamboozler's toolbox.

I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.

We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.

I'm asking people to vote for me because I'm an activist leader and a problem solver.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.