Top 100 Ballot Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ballot Quotes from famous people such as Justin Trudeau, Matt Bevin, Cynthia McKinney, Elliott Abrams, Yadier Molina, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the

I’m not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that’s a cause for cynicism more than anything else.
Justin Trudeau
Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.
Matt Bevin
The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.
Cynthia McKinney
If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don’t think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
Elliott Abrams
Just seeing my name on the ballot as a top three finalist for the Most Valuable Player title in the National League brings me great satisfaction because this accolade means a lot.
Yadier Molina
I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.
Marc Veasey
A president’s power is limited. We need to vote down the ballot as well, from your councilman all the way up to your governors and congressman.
Kerby Jean-Raymond
The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.
Mona Eltahawy
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
Coretta Scott King
We’ve had to be creative to get on the ballot.
Kinky Friedman
Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box – and reclassify some of the ideas that we’ve called ‘progressive,’ but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all – the better.
Pramila Jayapal
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.
Kirk Cameron
If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.
Pete Coors
I really don’t sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can’t go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.
Tipper Gore
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
George Crook
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
Christine Pelosi
I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.
Andrew Cuomo
That’s what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they’d have to get new candidates.
Meg White
Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.
Richard Flanagan
The Southern Progress Fund will bring much-needed resources into multiple Southern states where Democrats must identify up-and-coming leaders and build a bench of strong potential candidates up and down the ballot.
Ronnie Musgrove
Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can ‘the consent of the governed’ be given if the right to vote be denied?
Susan B. Anthony
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
Lysander Spooner
American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
Neil Gorsuch
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
Lysander Spooner
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Rose Schneiderman
In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament… Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
Carles Puigdemont
We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.
Jason Kander
If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
Al Franken
Surely these women won’t lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
Rose Schneiderman
I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.
Henry Cuellar
If you take away people’s identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don’t be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.
Nigel Farage
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
Robert Caro
Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.
Michael Beschloss
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can’t pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.
Jordi Cuixart
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Benjamin Harrison
It’s got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you’re afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
Malcolm X
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it’s through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
Richard Armitage
Calling out people for not voting, what experts term ‘public shaming,’ can prod someone to cast a ballot.
Charles Duhigg
Abraham Lincoln once noted that ‘the ballot is stronger than the bullet.’ Foreign adversaries, who can’t match the military, economic or diplomatic power of the U.S., understand Lincoln’s wisdom. They seek to sow chaos and confusion in our electoral process to gain an advantage over us.
Robert C. O’Brien
If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I’d not only run, I’d win.
Jesse Ventura
I’ve never voted in my life. I’ve never felt able to put my pen to a ballot paper because there was nobody I believed I could vote for. They were all working for the bankers. There was nobody for the people.
Bez
My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great – people say, ‘Oh, I don’t want this or that’ – but at the end of the day, tweeting isn’t a ballot. Just saying that you don’t like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
Zendaya
You’re not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
Carl Lewis
South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
Catherine Helen Spence
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor’s office.
John Jay Hooker
Efforts to steal an election in 2000 or overturn one from 2016 should be met not with passive compliance but a righteous defense of the ballot box.
Mollie Hemingway
Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
Gavin Newsom
The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.
Sara Gideon
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
Adam Cohen
It’s not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it’s votes in ballot boxes.
Nicola Sturgeon
This is the extreme left’s problem in both television and in politics. Whether it be lousy ratings on TV or getting votes, if you don’t listen to and understand Americans, you’ll pay the price at the ballot box.
Trish Regan
I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you 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.
Kirk Cameron
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work – because if they don’t, they won’t be around the next time the ballot box is open.
Abdullah II of Jordan