Quotes About Voting

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

Por qué el voto de quienes no tienen criterio ni educación ni cultura vale lo mismo que el de quienes sí la tienen?, ¿por qué un voto obtenido con un revólver en la cabeza o lavando el cerebro de la gente con publicidad o comprado con cincuenta mil pesos, vale igual que un voto expresado en libertad? Pregúntaselo a los defensores de la democracia. Esa es la gran perversidad, pero esto no se puede decir.

I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It's up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.

I never voted for a president until I felt Obama had a dream and might pull it off, and that was the first time I ever voted for a president.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.

Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes.

It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Loughshane, according to Barrington Erle, was so small a place, that the expense would be very little. There were altogether no more than 307 registered electors. The inhabitants were so far removed from the world, and were so ignorant of the world's good things, that they knew nothing about bribery.

They say women are to vote, and become doctors, and if so, there's no knowing what devil's tricks they mayn't do.

As a portrait should be like the person portrayed, so should a representative House be like the people whom it represents. Nor in arranging a franchise does it seem to me that we have a right to regard any other view. If a country be unfit for representative

This came after the Archbishop of Canterbury and two of his fellow bishops had indicated to the Prime Minister that the attitude of the Church of England towards Catholic Emancipation, symbolized by their persistently hostile voting in the House of Lords, had not changed.

Six paradoxes of Mature Socialism: 1) There's no unemployment, but no one works; 2) no one works, but productivity goes up; 3) productivity goes up, but stores are empty; 4) stores are empty, but fridges are full; 5) fridges are full, but no one is satisfied; 6) no one is satisfied, but everyone votes yes.

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.