Voting Quotes

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

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act.

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.

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

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

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

We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

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

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

My vote is my secret.

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.

By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

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

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

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

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.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

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.

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

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

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.

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

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

Quit voting me down before you even think about what I'm saying.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

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