Voting Quotes
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.
Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
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.
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.
As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
