Voting Quotes
543 quotes by 390 authors
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
— Richard Armour
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.
— Stephen Baldwin
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
— Bob Barr
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting…
— Birch Bayh
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer…
— Wendell Berry
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I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the…
— Jello Biafra
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I…
— Lewis Black
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
— James Bovard
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote…
— Barbara Boxer
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I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every…
— Barbara Boxer
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where…
— Jeff Bridges
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't…
— Charles Bukowski
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in…
— David Byrne
Who Wrote These Voting Quotes
390 authors contributed a total of 543 Voting Quotes, led by these top contributors: