Voting Quotations

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

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

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.

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

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.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. Thats democracy.

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.