Best 497 quotes in «vote quotes» category

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

People on probation and parole are typically denied the right to vote, and in eleven states people are denied the right to vote even after completion of their sentences.

Republicans can vote on Sundays too, just after they go to Church.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

See, I am the mayor of Realville, and science is not up to a vote. It either is or isn't. Whatever it is, it is or isn't, but it's not up to a vote. Global warming doesn't exist because a "consequences of scientists" agree. Manmade global warming either is happening or it isn't, but it isn't up to a vote. But it is being presented to you as a consequences of scientists. Therefore, the science is not settled. Besides that, we all know that it's a hoax now. It's just some people don't want to accept that, but it is.

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Someone asked me "what do you think of Donald Trump?" And I said, "I would rather vote for Hillary Clinton in jail." If she gets convicted, I'll vote for her for president.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

Sometime in the near future we'll have a vote on repealing Obamacare, essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal there's a two-year delay, a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our Democratic friends.

Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

That's Donald Trump negotiating position. "Okay. If we can't vote to repeal Obamacare, I'm standing by and I'm letting it die. I'm letting it implode. I'm gonna let it fail, and it's on the Democrats, and I'll make sure everybody knows it's on the Democrats. I am not gonna own this sucker. It isn't mine. I had nothing to do with it. I've engaged in good-faith efforts to fix this and people aren't interested.

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.

That was very appreciative because all the players vote for that. That's the highest award anyone can get in the NFL. Every team in the NFL votes for the most valuable player. I was injured. I had appendicitis the first part of the season, but I came back after ten days. Nobody came back that early. No player wants to sit on the bench. No player wants to be inactive. Everybody wants to play.I came back in ten days. I had the uniform on and played. I played those next games until I got kicked in the head.

[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

The big question that everyone is asking themselves, or what they should be asking themselves right now, is what role has the media played in not just missing a certain part of American society that wanted to vote for, say, Donald Trump, but what role has the media played in dehumanizing other people and helping create these conditions that people are so afraid of, say, Muslims and extremism?

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.

The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

The Democratic vote consists of minorities and educated whites.

The Democrats' version of immigration is all about securing additional votes.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people.

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.