Words matter. These are the best Voting Quotes from famous people such as Amy Klobuchar, Rand Paul, Christopher Buckley, Ellen Ullman, Aaron Klein, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
I cast my first vote on my father’s lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we’ll go ahead and do it anyway.
Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.
Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, ‘We’re life-long Democrats, but we’re voting for you. We’ve never voted for a Republican in our life.’
I will say this – I certainly will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.
Voting rights are about the foundation of our democracy.
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
I’m a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.
If we reduce the minimum voting age to 16, as we should, then people could be auto-registered when they are issued with a national insurance card.
I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system – from voting to standing for election. It’s both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.
I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.
Voters seem to enjoy voting for what experts believe they won’t vote for.
Polls can change; people’s opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections – in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories – Americans should be debating how to counter this activity.
I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself.
The reality is, our problem isn’t that more people are voting Republican than Democrat – our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren’t voting.
Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?
I am sure that every one of my colleagues – Democrat, Republican, and Independent – agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.
Voting on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is one of the most important duties of a U.S. Senator.
As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.
Concealing one’s true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
Too many people fought too hard to make sure all citizens of all colors, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities can vote to think that not voting somehow sends a message.
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
Well, I’ve been a Republican for all of my voting life.
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later ’cause the cards are a different color.
I’ll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.
Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we have a moral responsibility to protect and expand the right to vote – for everyone.
Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter access in the legislatures of the 50 states.
I’ve reached out to independents and minorities that have traditionally voted Democrat but that are conservative on a lot of questions. We talk to young people, folks that typically aren’t voting on a consistent basis. I’m proud of that.
For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
Democrats call their flagship voting bill the ‘For the People Act.’ But a better, and more fitting title is the Nancy Pelosi Power Grab Act.
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
Our voting records are not necessarily the same, but, you know, we’re all Texans, and at the end of the day, we try to help each other out.
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.
For many years I have advocated ‘redesigning Parliament’ in a variety of ways – elect the Senate, do away with the ‘confidence convention,’ permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual ‘take note’ debates, restructure question period, and so on.
In general, I think that not voting is a perfectly honorable and civic-minded course in an election with two options that you consider unacceptable. I think casting a protest vote is a totally acceptable course. I have done both in my life.
The 2020 Election is believed to be the most important in our lifetime. Therefore, I’ve chosen to become more involved in the voting process by using my social media platform to encourage voting and my facility as a Dekalb County early voting polling station.
The way to convince people not to vote for Ukip is to make a positive case for voting Conservative.
I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything – fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself – and then you kind of go, ‘Actually, this voting thing is amazing,’ because you have a chance to change it, right?
People aren’t necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold – that is, when a voter knows you’re willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives – then that’s most of what you need to get their vote. It’s not your voting record.
I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, ‘So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.’
American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.
The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.
I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I’m so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.
Something’s wrong with all countries and all voting systems.
Despite all the evidence that Hispanics are not single-issue voters, Republican candidates are told that if they say harsh things about sanctuary cities, American jobs lost to illegal labor, or scandalous border security, Latino voters will punish them by voting Democrat.
NASA works very well with different election organizations because we’re all voting from different counties.
We Cubans are voting for our new constitution, we’re voting for Latin America and the Caribbean. We’re also voting for Venezuela, we’re defending Venezuela because in Venezuela the continent’s dignity is in play.
I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.