Quotes About Voting

There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent—William Graham Sumner's famous example of B and C deciding what D shall do for A.

just wasn't that interested in politics. Or else, as many would say, it was easier because I was a white privileged male. Or possibly because I'm simply a grown man, no longer a child, and understood that the world didn't always behave precisely as we wanted it to and also that people weren't all the same. I was far more interested in what people were really like, not who they voted for.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting

Stoat himself was registered independent, but he hadn't stepped inside a voting booth in fourteen years. He couldn't take the concept seriously; he knew too much.

Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of 'democracy' with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury, so come equipped.

The essence of democracy is that you can kick people out.

In an election, there are no kings.

No, I wouldn't vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.

By all accounts the Angolan people, the great majority of them poor, illiterate and living in isolated villages or urban slums, carry out their civic responsibilities with great dignity and patience. The two voting days in Angola are another confirmation that anyone who mouths the cliché that Africans are not ready for democracy is simply ignorant of the facts. African politicians, however, are a different matter.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Fakat ayd?nlar?m?z ve yar?-ayd?nlar?m?z, "Nas?l olur da benim verdi?im oy, s?radan bir çöpçünün verdi?i oyla ayn? tutulur?", "Cahil kitleye göre ileriyi daha iyi gören ve bu nedenle büyük siyasi kararlarda daha etkin olabilecek hiç mi seçkin beyin yoktur?" biçimindeki sorular?yla kar??m?za ç?karlar.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Voting system can be the beginning of democracy, but quality and reliability of the service delivery system shows final face of the democracy.

I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

Charles Maddox noted that "when I am told that the flag means 'nigger on top,' and that I can't stand under it and cast my ballot without asking a nigger's permission, then I think it is time to rescue the flag from the infamy that threatens

In North Carolina, for example, circulars warned that continued statehood in the Union would bring emancipation, which would mean "having three hundred thousand idle, vagabond free negroes turned loose upon you with all the privileges of white men—voting with you; sitting on juries with you; going to school with your children, and intermarrying with the white race.

Both bad driving and bad voting are dangerous not merely to the individual who practices them, but to innocent bystanders.