Ballots Quotes

Thank God for paper ballots.

— Anibal Acevedo Vila

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Never forgive at the ballot box!

— Wendell Phillips

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

— Jesse Ventura

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

— Orel Hershiser

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

— Malcolm X

Money has much more power down the ballot.

— Jane Mayer

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

— Andrew Cuomo

“We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.”

— Timothy Snyder

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

— Abraham Lincoln

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

— Ida B. Wells

There is just no evidence of rampant voter fraud when it comes to mail-in ballots.

— Hallie Jackson

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

— Joseph Estrada

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

— Paul Ryan

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be…

— Hamid Karzai

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

— Russell Brand

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come…

— David Axelrod

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking…

— Avi Rubin

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its…

— Walter Bagehot

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to…

— Fay Vincent

We talked about various aspects of what we wanted to talk about, Hillary [Clinton] and [Donald] Trump and down-ballot stuff, various issues.…

— Joss Whedon

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only…

— Malcolm X

First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community…

— Dan Fouts

I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots,…

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Arnold Schwarzenegger has still not officially bowed out of this race. It looks like he's not gonna run. But I'll tell ya,…

— Jay Leno

More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words.…

— Thomas Sowell

The Kochs are very much involved in this election, not backing [Donald] Trump but backing everything down the ballot from him. They're…

— Jane Mayer

People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed…

— Wayne Pacelle

I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to…

— John Cornyn

Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be…

— Hannah Arendt

Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea…

— Charley Reese

We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen…

— T. D. Jakes

Certain kinds of typeface design and typographic design are designed to persuade: we can make this company look modern if we use…

— Michael Bierut

“Much needs to be done to fix the gerrymandered system so that each citizen has one equal vote, and so that each…

— Timothy Snyder

I am a member of Congress. And I do have a choice as to whether or not to continue as DNC chair…

— Hillary Clinton

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. [. . .] Only 7% of Americans are hunters.…

— Wayne Pacelle

In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always…

— Ben Bagdikian