Voting Quotes

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

I told y'all I didn't vote, right? But if I would've voted, I would've voted for Trump.

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy.

You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves

I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Elections matter and voting counts.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

Some said America took a step forward electing a black president. In light of the unconstitutiona l expansion of powers, lack of transparency and fueling the fires of unrest that clearly hasn't been the case. Vote based on merits, not to fill a racial quota.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors. There they have no masters save their own minds and consciences.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters ... Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.

There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what I think the country needs at that time, and I will vote for the person I think who is most qualified to serve the nation at that time.

The laws that stopped blacks from voting were the worst, because they prevented blacks from voting someone into parliament who could change the other laws. Even though the blacks were the majority of the population, they were still not getting a say.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

I'm an American, first and foremost, and I'm very proud - I said, I've said to my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years, "John, I love you, but I'm not just going to vote for you on the basis of our affection or friendship." And I've said to Barack Obama, "I admire you. I'll give you all the advice I can. But I'm not going to vote for you just because you're black." We have to move beyond this.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy.

The vote controls everything that you do.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election