Ballots Quotes · Page 2

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

— Orel Hershiser

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

— Jesse Ventura

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

— Shimon Peres

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

— John McCain

I did not send in my absentee ballots to Alaska. I'm going to be in trouble. Sorry, mom!

— Bristol Palin

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

— Tom Fitton

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Lindsey Graham

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

— Frederick Douglass

That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't…

— Ralph Nader

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

— Karl Rove

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then…

— Saul Alinsky

Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use…

— Wayne Pacelle

And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my…

— Michelle Obama

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm…

— Gerald R. Ford

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

— Booker T. Washington

Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to…

— Jay Leno

If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people,…

— Dolores Huerta

[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused…

— Mary Edwards Walker

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the…

— George Ayittey

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

— Michael Bierut

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms…

— Shimon Peres

I think we need to fight against Trumpism in the courts, we need to fight at the ballot box and online, and…

— Tim Kaine

Barack Obama thinks he's universally loved and adored because of that approval rating, which is a lie or a misrepresentation. It's mainly…

— Rush Limbaugh

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did…

— Geraldine Brooks

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer…

— J. G. Ballard

In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems…

— William Feather

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

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

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

— Ben Bagdikian

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

— Wayne Pacelle

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

— Michael Douglas

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

— Ambrose Bierce

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

— Malcolm X

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