Best 497 quotes in «vote quotes» category

We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power.

When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

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.

When Reagan was outspoken about his faith it was usually for a purpose, but never for getting votes.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became a Canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. Now you can. So I had to be one or the other. But the reason I became a Canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.

You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school

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.

Why not liberate voters to actually vote your values?

Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

Worship With Your Vote.

Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to withdraw from the U.S. neoliberalism that has been running Europe for the last ten years.

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

You don't need papers to vote.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

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.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

After the elections, voters are never given an applause.

Any political party that fails to fire or to get rid of its corrupt members. It is highly that those members were not acting on their own capacity or interest, but they were following orders from the party committee or execs.

A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope. Upon you has fallen the glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth and all the inhabitants thereof.

Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you’re supposed to believe in’s really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it’s a good bet you remember ‘No new taxes’ and ‘Out of the loop’ and ‘No direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time’ and Did not inhale’ and ‘Did not have sex with that woman’ and etc. etc. It’s depressing and painful to believe that the would-be ‘public servants’ you’re forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you’re an idiot. So who wouldn’t fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?

Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be the WORD OF GOD, and which should not. They rejected several; they voted others to be doubtful, such as the books called the Apocrypha; and those books which had a majority of votes, were voted to be the word of God. Had they voted otherwise, all the people since calling themselves Christians had believed otherwise; for the belief of the one comes from the vote of the other.

Between the black box proprietary code, barebones computers we call voting machines and a mass of completely unqualified election officials, our election system is up for grabs to anybody with even a modest interest and some script kiddie capability. The cyber-kinetic attack surface here is wide open.

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

Democracy is not a requirement ..it is right ... Democracy is not a choice.. it is justice!

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

Government should start hiring people who are willing to feed the nation rather than people who want to feed their stomach.

And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.