Best 497 quotes in «vote quotes» category

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

You are worse than a corrupt politician if you don't vote, because tomorrow. You will be the first to complain about bad service delivery and how bad the country is being run by bad leaders and criminals.

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!

You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

A majority of Hillary Clinton supporters say they are likely to split their ticket. So, they will vote for Hillary Clinton, but they will vote for Republicans for the Senate or governor or some other races down the ballot. But a majority of Donald Trump voters said they wouldn't split their ticket. They're going to stick on the Republican side.

And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II

And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

As an American citizen, one has to vote.

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.

A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God

As far as the low-information segment of the population - the vast, vast, vast majority of which votes Democrat - if you are a progressive as Barack Obama is and you want to sell the direction you're taking this country, it's okay to call it great now 'cause you've got it moving in the direction of decline.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

A wasted vote is voting for someone that you don't believe in

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

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.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

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.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.

Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Disunity costs votes.

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, but he won more than 12 million votes in the primaries and was respectfully and elaborately saluted by Hillary Clinton, whom he has endorsed.

Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.