Best 497 quotes in «vote quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.***

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

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.

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.

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

Disunity costs votes.

[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, 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 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.

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 vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

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.

Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.

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.

Election Day now has become the last day to vote.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.

Every Catholic parliamentarian must vote according their well-formed conscience. I would say just this. I believe it is sufficient because - I say well-formed because it is not the conscience of 'what seems to me.'

Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.

Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

Harry Reid employed the so-called nuclear option, broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, lowered the threshold for confirmation from 60 votes to 51 votes. And it is a direct result of Harry Reid that we now have the most conservative Cabinet in decades.

God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.