Quotes About Voting

I love reality TV shows like 'Big Brother' where it's smart game to vote off the strong competitors, especially early on to give the other people a fighting chance. From a game stance, it's totally acceptable.

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

As the fans' voting reflected, people want to hear your best-known songs.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

People want the government to go back to the people.

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

People can vote for who ever they want. That doesn't mean I have to go near them.

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

I vote yes....for Prim.

When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

South Carolina is more of a conservative state than a Republican state.

From the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights revolution, the South was an almost uniformly Democratic region. In 1936, for example, Franklin Roosevelt won more than 98 percent of the vote in South Carolina.