Ballot Quotes · Page 2

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

— Jane Addams

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

— Richard Flanagan

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

— Wavy Gravy

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

— Boyd K. Packer

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

— Al Franken

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

— Cynthia McKinney

“Today we still call the standard method of achieving secrecy in voting in elections the Australian ballot. The”

— Daron Acemoğlu

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I…

— Carl Lewis

We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses…

— Jill Stein

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't…

— Anonymous

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People…

— Jason Kander

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not…

— Malcolm X

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight…

— Rose Schneiderman

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln…

— Henry Villard

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot…

— Bob Schaffer

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

I have constantly told people that I was Secretary of State and I was not going to get into a partisan debate.…

— Condoleezza Rice

Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the…

— William H. Sylvis

“You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot…

— George Soros

I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot…

— Mitt Romney

People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get…

— Gary Payton

The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I…

— Michael Bierut

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

— Charles Duhigg

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

— Lysander Spooner

Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.

— Dana Loesch

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.

— Lindsey Graham

Anybody who puts himself on a ballot has to have a big ego, we have to have it.

— Michael Capuano

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

— Adam Cohen

I don't care who my rivals are on the ballot, I will beat them all.

— Javier Milei

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

— Malcolm X

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

— Malcolm X

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

— John McCain

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

— Katsuya Okada

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

— Cory Doctorow

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

— W. E. B. Du Bois

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

— Nina Turner

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

— Harry S. Truman

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring.

— Laura Kuenssberg