Voting Quotes
543 quotes by 390 authors
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We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But…
— Harvey Mansfield
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and…
— Tony Benn
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If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.
— Janet Yellen
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Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly…
— Molly Ivins
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Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor…
— Lucy Parsons
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There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
— H. L. Mencken
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Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting.…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy.…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which…
— Joe Biden
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If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,
— Philip Berrigan
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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to…
— Neil Postman
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Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and…
— DeForest Soaries
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You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge…
— John Shelton Reed
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They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite…
— Paul Weyrich
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Now many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo-goo syndrome.' Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote.…
— Paul Weyrich
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The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.
— Nigel Lythgoe
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders,
— J C Watts
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It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about…
— Walid Jumblatt
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Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
— Denzel Washington
Who Wrote These Voting Quotes
390 authors contributed a total of 543 Voting Quotes, led by these top contributors: