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Quotes About Voting

I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.
~ John Kani
What matters is that the majority of American people have become complacent in a senseless injustice that occurs all around them. What matters is that most American politicians have become more easily swayed by money than by the people who voted them into office.
~ Emma Gonzalez
I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he's terrific.
~ Dennis Hopper
I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.
~ Paul Merton
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.
~ John Major
I didn't think politics had anything to do with our daily lives. I had never voted. Well boy I know now.
~ Mike Lindell
And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
~ William Gilbert
I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.
~ Amy McGrath
I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.
~ Caroline Kennedy
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.
~ Rick Renzi
You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him.
~ Amy McGrath
I'm a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, 'Oh my God, here's another TV character trying to run for the presidency.' They didn't really take him seriously.
~ Jake Hager
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.
~ Christine Lagarde
I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.
~ Jeff Bingaman
On 'Redneck Island,' a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination.
~ Stone Cold Steve Austin
If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
~ John Oliver
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
~ Alveda King
I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.
~ Bill Foster
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
~ Ezra Cornell
Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.
~ Hillary Clinton
There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.
~ Lisa Leslie
I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.
~ Jim Moran
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
~ Roy Barnes
We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
~ Kate Clinton