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.
