Voting Quotes

I think people that are, you know, voting in the blind are doing a disservice to America by not being better informed.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

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.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

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.

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.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

I've never disclosed for whom I'm voting.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.

It is preposterous to believe that the Russians had any effect on the outcome of voting in America. It's absurd. There is no evidence.

The people of America are tired of voting based on what candidates have told them they're gonna do, and nothing ever changes.

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

The Russians could not have had any impact whatsoever on voting in America, either how they were cast or how they were counted.

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

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

It's almost like my career has been [based on voting]. I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. And then on Dancing with the Stars, fans were voting.

I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

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

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

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 such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

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

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

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

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.