Words matter. These are the best Vote Quotes from famous people such as Jason Kander, Hank Johnson, George Bernard Shaw, Abhay Deol, LaToya London, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don’t attend our schools, get married and have children. They don’t vote in our elections.
If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.
I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.
I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I’m more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don’t know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don’t think we are the same at all.
Each American has a right to be heard, and I was proud to vote to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore vital voter protections and strengthen Virginians’ trust in our political process.
I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That’s democracy.
Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent – yes, that’s right: less than 1 per cent.
I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.
When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.
Make no mistake, a ‘yes’ vote on the Democrats’ health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
You must see the persons who are in charge – persons you can punish or vote for.
I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.
I cast my first vote on my father’s lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
I’d like to find and vote for a candidate, whether Republican or Democrat… that has the best interest in the health and welfare of everybody in this country.
I don’t – you know, I’m very disillusioned with our political system. If we don’t wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are – we’re doomed.
I’ve got friends who didn’t vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land to farm. Ultimately, the GOP abolished slavery, then gave freedmen the vote so they could protect their own economic interests.
It’s very important to vote. People died for this right.
I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. ‘Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.’
When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to ‘vote as you shot’ kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat – Grover Cleveland – won the White House.
You can’t vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
Filmmaking is a real democracy – it’s up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.
There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.
You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what’s going on in Washington, D.C.
At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I’ m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.
I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn’t think my vote mattered because I didn’t have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
I can’t control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I’ve been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
I’d vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.
Susan Collins’ vote to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court may be paying off for her, but it’s put women’s control over their own health care decisions in extreme jeopardy.
I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it’s George Bush or Barack Obama. And I’m going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.
It’s heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.
The Brexit thing to me just looks like a difference of opinion. I know things were lied about, but that should be a wake-up call to get all the information before you vote about something. Educate yourself.
Anybody who knows me knows my vote can’t be bought.
When the Obama administration passed the net neutrality rules in 2015, even when we were winning, I favored trying to get these rules in a statute, because I feel that the best way to establish predictability for the marketplace is to make sure they’re not subject to the whims of a partisan vote at the FCC.
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn’t have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn’t matter.
The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.
If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.
When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain’s seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.
Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.
In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
If you can’t put your values into your vote, we don’t have a democracy.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
To win the nomination, you speak to people who vote in Republican primaries. And they tend not to be millennials or minorities… When I win the nomination and show up at a black church, they say, ‘Where have you been Mr. Romney?’
Being a Jehovah’s Witness, I don’t celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don’t vote.
No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!
Our message has been muddled, especially in 2016. Voters in Ohio heard from Trump, ‘I’m going to save your coal jobs.’ And while that was a lie, what it told them is, ‘I’m going to feel your pain.’ What they heard from the Democratic side was, ‘Vote for us because Donald Trump is crazy.’
Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.
The good news is dollars don’t vote, people do.
Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’
There’s a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don’t bother. And that’s why it’s not working.
Vote early and vote often.
Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.
The Bank of England’s Carney is worried the shock of Britain’s vote to leave the E.U. could cause households and businesses to temporarily halt spending, which could stop the economy and even spur a recession.
I’m not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.
In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.
I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven’t seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don’t vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn’t exercise your vote.
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‘democratic’ right to vote.
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.
I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.
I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.
People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government’s job, when it’s really the individual’s job.
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: ‘Look, I haven’t given this election a minute’s thought, and it’s just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.’ Indeed, it’s not just sound and honest – it’s the ethically responsible thing to do.
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
I did the Labour thing because I wanted my community to be better off. I’m pretty sure people are aware of the kind of money I make. I’m not telling people to vote Labour to benefit me.
People vote based on emotion. Period.
I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate – me – who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I’m the only one – I don’t care who gets in – who has that record.
I would vote for a Mormon.
We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read – I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
Whether it’s threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I’ll buy one. I’ll take that one home.
I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That’s one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we’ll able to pay our bills down the road.
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes – I don’t think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn’t vote for a guy who wouldn’t reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I’m offering myself as the alternative PM – that’s one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition – but I’m not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
I don’t vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I’m not that person. I’m painting pictures.
Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.
If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
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.
To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you – a reason to hope – a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.
One of Ed Miliband’s shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.
Some of the most hard-working, generous people I’ve met in my whole life didn’t really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.
The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
You can always find a reason to say no. It’s the easiest vote. It’s also not exactly a red badge of courage.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.
I do vote but I don’t think that any political party represents my point of view.
I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I’ll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.
I don’t think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn’t be voting. However, we shouldn’t be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.
The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.
Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Economic opportunities will win the women’s vote.
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.
The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for. It’s still the same billionaires that run the world.
I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.
The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our right to national revival in our historic homeland.
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on ‘The Walking Dead’!
Every citizen’s vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
I think it’s inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you’re reauthorizing the war all over again.
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I’m told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don’t vote.
If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one’s vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders’ meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.
I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, ‘Who would vote for you? Look at her face.’
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
I don’t want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.
Here’s why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He’s pro-abortion. He’s never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He’s called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He’s in favor of open borders.
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That’s just idiotic, right? That’s like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!
When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.
I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.
I’m not saying I shouldn’t have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn’t have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don’t vote because I don’t know anything about politics. And honestly, I can’t believe they’d let me. Isn’t that an important thing? They’ll just let me pick the president! I don’t gotta know anything!
I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
I can’t tell anyone to vote.
The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people’s vote as they vote.
I don’t think anyone went the polls and said, ‘I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.’
People don’t like to vote against something that’s so incredibly popular.
Perhaps we’ll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don’t vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it’s my responsibility to read the amendments.
I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.
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.
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I’m paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see who’s funniest, with everyone treated equally.
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
We think about democracy, and that’s the word that Americans love to use, ‘democracy,’ and that’s how we characterize our system. But if democracy just means going to vote, it’s pretty meaningless. Russia has democracy in that sense. Most authoritarian regimes have democracy in that sense.
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for ‘Legally Blonde,’ I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I’m a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.
When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we’re always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.
So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn’t respect human rights, don’t vote for that person.
I can’t vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
I mean, what are they scared of? Who’s going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God’s sake?
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.
I tell people I won’t vote to go to war unless I’m ready to go or send my kids.
When you talk about evangelicals, don’t forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans – well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical – will probably vote Democratic.
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.
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can’t begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I’ve never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.
I’d like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
If we’re going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
I’m a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
I’ve never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average person is thinking more about what I’ve accomplished in my professional career and what I’ve accomplished in my career as a legislator.
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.
I don’t think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it’s much more than that. It’s not just a black man. It’s not just a feel-good vote. It’s the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.
Simply as a writer of books I’m thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.
Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.
My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican – just because I think reporters are smart.
No, you can’t call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken’s vote.
I really believe that anybody on the Left or the Right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they’re stretching Scripture.
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.
If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.
I certainly respect other people’s opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate – and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.
America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can’t afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.
The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy – a philosophy that represents mainstream America.
I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
I’m pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
It is in Saudi Arabia’s best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I’m from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.
The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists – I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There’s too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.
I’m a big believer if you want to change people’s minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you’ve got to first get their attention.
If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women’s health care, you have to vote.
We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
I don’t vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don’t vote, we’re not doing our part. We’ll become some sort of oligarchy.
I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down – I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
In last year’s local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It’s not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they’ll vote.
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
Your vote can’t be separated from your faith.
I know that at literary festivals I’m speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I’d like them to vote.
I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.
There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might – you might lose your sponsors if you’re a talk show host; or if you’re running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you.
One of my ideas is that we post every vote on Facebook and on social media so that voters have an opportunity to hold their elected official accountable.
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn’t have a national healthcare program for children, even though it’s a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.
People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
Listen, we’re going to have to fight for every vote.
I vote and I do jury duty.
The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.
I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can’t vote.
Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia’s future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
I don’t trade my vote for money.
There are, of course, some who demand a no-deal Brexit and threaten to vote for any party that will deliver it.
If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I’ll consider giving him my vote.
I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country’s membership of the eurozone in danger.
We don’t normally go on about the fact that Roman Catholics once upon a time didn’t have the vote and weren’t allowed to have their own churches because we had Catholic emancipation.
‘Moderate Republican’ is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren’t so conspicuous, the ‘New York Times’ would start referring to ‘nice Republicans’ and ‘mean Republicans’
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that one day you’re one of the most conservative members, and then some individual gets mad at you, and they decide to throw millions of dollars against you because you didn’t vote exactly the way they want every day.
I wouldn’t vote for Obama.
I’m moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what’s right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don’t aren’t sure, so they don’t go out and vote.
If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what’s going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.
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.
You get elected, often, if you’re a woman, on the strength of the women’s vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
I’ve come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It’s somebody that they can’t put in a box and say, ‘Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.’
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
I didn’t vote, exactly. This is the first time I’ve been politically inclined and active, and I think Donald Trump is a tremendous president. And I wanted to be educated. I wanted to do a deep dive before I started going out there and saying stuff as opposed to other people who mindlessly vote.
The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote… so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1.
I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven’t said that.
America is the greatest country on Earth – and when people vote with their feet, they come here.
Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there’s no question about it. And it’s very simple to understand why – half of all Latinos over 18 years of age were born outside the United States. It really makes no sense to attack them and criticize them if you want their vote.
I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us, and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.
Donald Trump is kind of a riverboat gamble. He won the Illinois primary; in this case, we have seen the Republican vote up and the Democratic vote down, so it looks like it’s a net benefit.
Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don’t know what they would do.
Those who are outraged will vote.
If you’re going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you’d better be sure that God has faith in them.
Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
Elections are zero-sum games. That means that there’s always one winner and a lot of losers. If you just get one more vote than the other person, you win that election.
We need to vote people out of office that are perpetuating issues affecting young people, like gun violence.
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.
The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can’t figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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.
Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill – on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that’s wrong.
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
We’re a miserably violent species. But there’s a complication, which is we don’t hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it’s the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it’s the right kind of violence, we love it.
If you’re blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn’t just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.
The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you’re throwing your vote away.
The president said, ‘You’ve got to vote your conscience.
Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn’t vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
I never miss a vote; I think that’s the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular – your vote is your one weapon.
I have big ideas. If you don’t like them, don’t vote for me.
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
I didn’t vote for Trump, but I do believe his coming to power has done its own bit of good. People are coming out to protest against issues they so far didn’t talk about – sexual abuse, gun control, racism – because a bunch of crazies are out propagating them.
The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump. There’s no way I would vote for him under any circumstance. However, I think that the protesters may as well send him some money, because I think they’re going to push people into his camp.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
People feel much more comfortable with the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ version of women’s liberation: possibly feeling life would be much simpler if the suffragettes hadn’t wanted the vote and just really enjoyed chaining themselves to railings.
Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.
People who don’t vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.
I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn’t count. I’m trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven’t got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
If there’s amnesty leading to citizenship, I’m going to vote against it again.
You’re wrong if you think young people don’t deserve the vote.
We’re a miserably violent species. But there’s a complication, which is we don’t hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it’s the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it’s the right kind of violence, we love it.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.
We vote – if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don’t vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
If I believe your jobs plan, I’m going to vote for you.
Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better I feel.
I don’t follow politics; it doesn’t interest me. So why should I vote?
If you’re black in this country, if you’re a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, I said that he deserved a fair hearing and a vote. I said this even though Senate Republicans filibustered dozens of President Obama’s judicial nominees and then stopped President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.
People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed – ‘assault votes,’ for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
I’d rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.
I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently… the painting rebels and goes fascist on me.
Canadians didn’t vote for a carbon tax. Justin Trudeau campaigned, promised that he wouldn’t create a carbon tax.
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.
I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
Billionaires and corporations buy and sell politicians, while citizens struggle to exercise their right to vote or hold their elected representatives to account.
Many bills and many amendments that get passed get passed by a voice vote. They don’t actually get voted in by roll call, meaning all 435 members don’t vote on many of the bills.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media’s inability – or unwillingness – to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
I said I’m going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything’s workable. If Trump is president, I’ll work with that guy. I don’t know if he’s terrible or what. He’s refreshing in that he doesn’t speak in that political way. I don’t quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
We are just interested in dealing with the people we’re paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early ’70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don’t have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.
I’m conservative. I was raised conservative, and that’s the way I will vote.
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.
We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
We don’t want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.
I’m inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It’s a close call.
I’m attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for – I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.
In 2016 the public voted by a majority to leave the E.U. As I can see from my mailbag, some are angry at being deprived of their hopes and expectations. They demand action to implement their vote, just as others require we should think again and abandon the project entirely.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
If someone is cynical and doesn’t vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.
Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.
In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.
You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.
We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
I don’t always vote in general elections, but I think I’ve always voted Labour.
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
There’s no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist… If he swings, it will be from right to far right.
Countless black citizens in the South couldn’t vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven’t voted. I’m not the type of person who says, ‘I’m never going to vote.’ I think it’s clear to me that our system has failed us.
I’m elected. I don’t report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I’d quit tomorrow. I’m not tall, dark and handsome. They don’t vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can’t get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.
The youth don’t vote lawmakers into office, and as a result, they don’t work for them.
Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they’re disconnected from the people they serve, and I don’t think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won’t vote for me, would accuse me of that.
The GOP can’t even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.
On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.
I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.
After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn’t vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.
I don’t play politics; I don’t do that. I think there’s too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it’s our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that’s just unbelievable.
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
No, I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.
America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it’s a strange situation as I feel almost like I’m in no-man’s land some of the time, because although I’m a resident, I still can’t vote so I don’t really have a say in what goes on where I live.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.
If you ask the fish whether they’d rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d vote for another blowout.
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
I did vote Obama. But I’ve never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.
If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.
If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I’d have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.
I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn’t based on grades; that was the popular vote.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
I tend to vote Republican, but I don’t like the hardcore views on either side, and I’m not in bed with anybody.
We want to get people of color out to vote, because their vote matters. Every politician tries to capture it. But it’s More Than a Vote because we want to come up with what’s our ask, and hold these politicians’ feet to the fire to make real change.
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world’s leading democracy.
U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.
If you think that people can change… and, if they’ve grown and they’ve expressed contrition or regret, that they should be given a chance, then you should vote for me.
Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.
Here’s the facts: We’ve got to have I.D. to go vote, you have to show an I.D. to buy alcohol, you have got to show an I.D. need to buy tobacco, and you have to show and have a driver’s license to drive.
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I’m black but because of my policies.
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? ‘Failure is impossible.’ Failure is possible if women don’t vote.
When politics is interesting, people go vote.
Look at liberty’s greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms – often putting their lives on the line – called themselves liberals.
Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn’t because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you’re saying you have a political conscience but you don’t agree with any of the existing parties.
Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don’t vote that way.
When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.
A decision as a backbencher to vote against one’s party ought not to be taken lightly.
I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I’m up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they’ll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they’ve clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.
I would love to say to all Americans: ‘Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You’re going to watch one from each candidate, and then you’re going to vote!’
In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women’s vote to John McCain’s 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.
This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.
Remember, many Republicans didn’t vote for Mitt Romney. He didn’t inspire people.
It’s my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.
I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don’t offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
There are a number of Americans who shouldn’t vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people – ‘if you value it, vote for it’ – and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference.
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world’s publishing industry to jump to their tune.
When you’re a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they’re not going to vote for you.
People say, ‘If you don’t vote, then you don’t have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do – so even if I don’t vote, I still have the right to speak out.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
A chief justice’s authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.
I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
When push comes to shove, people vote alone.
I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don’t vote for men who yell.
We live in a nation that spent centuries denying the right to vote to the poor, to women, and to people of color.
If we are competing in elections, it’s because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.
There’s an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you’re this, or you’re absolutely a conservative, and those just aren’t all true.
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women’s rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women’s rights.
This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
I’ve never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I’m also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists – that ex-felons cannot vote.
Sometimes it’s important to vote – you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.
When the people’s representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.
Since I joined Congress, I’ve been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It’s no wonder Congress doesn’t enact good policy.
Vote Republican if you like, but don’t kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.
If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president.
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.
At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave,’ you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn’t share, but it’s not like I’m a fascist or a racist. There’s nothing like that in my history.
And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn’t say that. The Constitution doesn’t say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn’t have to even be a vote.
It’s clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international profile even further, with lots of benefits for Scottish arts and culture.
Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations – in ’93 and ’94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
If there’s ever a vote for single-payer, I’m a ‘yes.’ But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.
I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind.
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can’t get medical care or clean water.
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice… This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
I vote Labour and can’t begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.
The right to vote is one of our nation’s most important civil rights.
I’m entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I’m an American.
To my wife, I’m not Herbie Hancock the musician. I’m her husband. When I’m talking to a neighbor, I’m a neighbor. When I vote, I’m a citizen.
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.
The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don’t vote for me, don’t expect anything.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
People didn’t vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
I, for one, am quite willing to join the ‘forgive, forget and move on’ crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it’s easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn’t earn the right to vote for another eight years.
I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
It’s interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It’s a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It’s fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won’t vote for war.
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let’s make America work, let’s make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.
The rich don’t win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn’t win, but we got Prince and Princess.
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
