Quotes About Voting

It was an odious process whereby one wined and dined one's constituents and gave speeches. It was all many degrees more shameless than anything we complain of today, not least because one was quite literally expected to pay each elector two guineas as a bribe.

In many cases the office of captain was more or less automatically voted to the person who had been most active in raising the company; to some extent this was true also in the choice of colonels.

They believed that, given the significance of the decision, I should not have announced the program before the FOMC formally voted.

The callers seemed to believe that voting in opposition to their personal views for political reasons was perfectly natural.

Conservatives understand that politics simply reflect underlying values. That's why they are passionate. They don't vote their pocketbooks. They vote their guts, and their guts tell them that leftism is immoral on the most basic level.

It is the reason that the right consistently loses the black and Hispanic vote – not because the right's policies are so abhorrent to blacks and Hispanics, but because blacks and Hispanics have been told for generations that conservatives hate them.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. (Misattributed)

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

In other words, the market is not a weighing machine, on which the value of each issue is recorded by an exact and impersonal mechanism, in accordance with its specific qualities. Rather should we say that the market is a voting machine, whereon countless individuals register choices which are the product partly of reason and partly of emotion.

When Americans vote for a particular candidate, they vote for the candidate who reminds them of the kind of person they would have eaten lunch with.

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate in the political process.

When they regain the right to vote, formerly incarcerated individuals know that they have a real voice in impacting change in their community.

There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.

In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote.

If we don't register and don't vote, national leaders will not be aware of our point of view.

As much as I'd like to register Jesus to vote in Georgia, the law says I can't do that.

I really wish everyone at the age of 18 would register and would vote.