Voting Quotes

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

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.

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.

If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

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

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

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.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

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

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them.

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

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

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

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

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

We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

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

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

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 took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.