Voting Quotes · Page 6

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

— Tom Wolfe

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

— Gloria Steinem

“State first, subject second, statesman last.”

— Amit Kalantri

I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.

— Julianne Malveaux

“Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.”

— Hazen Pingree

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

— Dolores Huerta

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

— George Lopez

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

— Jesse Jackson

The fact that someone owes money will not keep them from getting their voting rights back.

— Andy Beshear

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

— Bill Mollison

As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

— Adam Cohen

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

— Kathleen Sebelius

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what…

— Larry Flynt

People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote…

— Jon Gnarr

[Marco Rubio] a total non-show senator. I mean, he was elected - he defrauded the people of Florida. He was elected to…

— Donald Trump

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree…

— Aberjhani

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators…

— Ben Shapiro

We have to continue to raise awareness as the Voting Rights Caucus... make sure people call into their state legislators. Let us…

— Marc Veasey

As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

No one is arguing that the entire Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 2 is the most important part of the act.…

— Luther Strange

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Voting by mail has a long, venerable tradition in this country, most notably the election of 1864, when 150,000 Union soldiers sent…

— George T. Conway III

The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the…

— Douglas MacArthur

I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders…

— Benjamin Franklin

“How we vote on policy issues, for example, is influenced by whether we attribute economic and achievement inequalities primarily to genetic or…

— Walter Mischel

“In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see…

— David Graeber

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as…

— Daniel Webster

Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff […

— Lizz Winstead

I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest…

— Warren G. Harding

“A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.”

— Amit Kalantri

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

— Nancy Lublin

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

— Ken Hakuta

Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans

— Will Rogers

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There's a lot of people that watch wrestling that don't give a hoot about voting.

— Bob Backlund

I don't feel comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton.

— Glenn Beck

A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,

— Richard Trumka