Vote Quotes

People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

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

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

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

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

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

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I don't trade my vote for money.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

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.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.