So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I look at American Christianity and I'm almost in despair. I don't want to be identified with it. The Christian vote in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
“Oh, no," Hope said. "I'm not. No, I don't believe in all that , but it's - well, it's two things. One… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
With your votes you are working for your future. It is not a holiday; it is the most serious day of work… — Luis Munoz Marin Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
Assuming that two-thirds of the Senate will not vote to remove the president, what is the alternative? I think we need to… — Thad Cochran Copy Share Image
If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I think that speaking is the most important thing we can do, but let's talk about what it means to speak effectively.… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
There are two strategies available in a partisan political environment for communities working for justice. You can join the Democratic Party -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We know, without question, especially during a pandemic, we have to preserve people's rights to be healthy and safe but also to… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote… By buying into the rhetoric that there are… — Carla Howell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together.… — Pat Sajak Copy Share Image
Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, that's not how you win the presidency, you dummkopfs. You get 270 electoral votes, and we got 306. Kellyanne [Conway]… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When somebody comes up with a progressive idea, to begin with, you're mad, bonkers. Then if you go on, you're dangerous. Then… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
They have to earn our vote. Neither Hillary [Clinton] or Donald [Trump] have earned our votes, yet the media is kind of… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, all of us in this grand hall and everybody watching at home, when we vote in this election, we'll… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Labor union members, especially white men, are the target group for Donald Trump. He's had a lot of success in getting their… — Susan Page Copy Share Image
And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally… — Lynn Redgrave Copy Share Image