Best 497 quotes in «vote quotes» category

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

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

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

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.

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

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

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

[Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.

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.

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

[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote.

Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.

Don't forget during the primary debates when Trump pointed at Carly Fiorina and said, "Look at that face, who would vote for her?" That tells you everything about him and what he cares about women.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.