Quotes About Voting

Niewa?ne, kto g?osuje, wa?ne, kto liczy g?osy (?? ????? ??? ????????, ????? - ??? ?????? ????????????)

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

In America, however, foreign policy could be determined by popular appeal, through advertising and informational campaigns aimed at the common man who voted.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

I think that's the beauty of elections: You can't hide from who you are. The more honestly and directly you communicate to people why you're doing this, the way in which you want to serve them, I just think that the better, more informed decision that they can make.

The more we educate folks, the more it will help them make informed policy decisions.

It's important to know enough about all of the candidates to make an informed choice, and our candidate is Hillary Clinton.

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

I'm going do everything I can to make sure that we protect the integrity of our democracy.

Telling or encouraging people to vote for a party would be an insult to peoples' intellect.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside forces will not interfere.

The international community doesn't cast a vote here. Gabonese people do, so I am accountable to them. They are the ones to give me my job or take it away. So this is what is really important to me.

We never get asked who we would vote for. It could be a general question to ask us in an interview, but it isn't.

Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

The [Fifteenth] Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.

This line of reasoning brings us to a challenging question: If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?

We now observe this fatal idea: The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, and so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward into degradation.

All that may be true, but I cannot recognize that the negro man is the only one who has pressing claims at this hour. To-day our government needs woman's conscience as well as man's judgment. And while I would not throw a straw in the way of the colored man, even though I know that he would vote against me as soon as he gets his vote, yet I do think that woman should have some power to defend herself from oppression, and equal laws as if she were a man.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.