Voting Quotes
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.
Your story is for - voting for every disastrous trade agreement, and voting for corporate America. Did I vote against the Wall Street bailout?
What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.
We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.
The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.
Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. So that's African Americans.
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
People voting for Donald Trump are doing so for a whole lot of different reasons, but I think there is a typical Trump voter. I think they're there for specific reasons.
If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.
Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.
Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.
Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.
Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.
North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.
But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
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.
ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.
If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?
It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.
Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.
In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
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.
Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.
I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.