Best 497 quotes in «vote quotes» category

There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.

The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

There is no history of Donald Trump associating with the Ku Klux Klan. None whatsoever. But beyond that, people are saying that Trump is insensitive and he's boorish and he's a pig, and now he's sympathetic to all of these extreme right-wing groups 'cause that's who elected him. Okay, how many members of the Klan are there? The number is 200,000 tops. Tops! How many white supremacists are there? Where do they live? How do you campaign for them? Where do you get their votes? Where are they registered and how do you reach them in a campaign?

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

The senators are clearly willing to incur your wrath at reelection time. They would much rather do that than deal with whatever is gonna happen to them if they vote to repeal Obamacare. They're afraid of somebody. They are concerned about somebody or something, but it isn't you. Despite the most important thing in their lives, being reelected, that's what you do.

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most states, the conclusion is foregone and there's no reason for the candidate to be there and for that reason, for that same, because of those same dynamics there's no reason for the journalist to be there combing the opinions of voters there because we know that California's gonna vote Democratic.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Those of you that will be 21 by November the 12th, I ask for your support and your vote.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

Vote wisely, even if that means not voting at all.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect God to be the overarching influencer in our nation.

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does.

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.

We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

We have people there who do have substantial wisdom and substantial experience. And if they were confident enough to express their own views, that they wouldn't be bushwhacked by the party for casting a single vote like Bob Bennett was or like I was, they'd be willing to speak up and they'd be willing to speak their consciences and put their ideas on the line. But right now, there is timidity, there is fear that if they do that a single votes gonna cost them their job and they're not willing to make that kind of a sacrifice and they're not enough with the people.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.