Quotes About Voting

People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government as a whole. You have to change the system and make it possible for the people's will to be heard.

Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.

Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore.

Until June 26, 1918, all Texans could vote except "idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women.

That he won at all is the result of an electoral college system originally designed to protect the power of slave owners.

In 1973, the year of his death, Garrett railed against the constitutional right to vote, complaining how "the vote of the feeble-minded person counts as much as that of an intelligent man.

People still vote for what they think they want; they're calling on a bright memory of a time that has gone, rather than voting for and demanding what they need for their children.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

You actually need to go somewhere and vote and make sure you don't have corrupt police. But there's a faith in technology as the savior, as the new Messiah, and that's definitely not the case.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Why on earth do we keep sending bozos like Michael Bennet back to Washington when they fail to get anything done?

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

Michigan will be Democratic in some years and Republican in some years. I don't think we'll ever make the mistake like we did in 2016 and not turn out again.

Midwest elections have consequences.

When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.

Like many of my fellow millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat. More than party affiliation, I vote on based on what I believe is right, for my family and for my country. Sometimes it's a tough choice.

You can't just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 - almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It's a complex country.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

All Bangladeshi citizens, including minorities and women, must feel safe and confident in exercising their right to vote.

Thomas Paine said, "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery."1

In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.