Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

Kerry Washington

Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Fred Thompson

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

Henry Cuellar

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

Eleanor Clift

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Peter Rodman

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

Amy Walter

Cuellar has some vulnerabilities with his voting record. But I just don't think Ciro is doing everything to make this as competitive as it could be.

Henry David Thoreau

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Jello Biafra

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Chris Patten

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

George Carlin

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

Howie Carr

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.

George Bernard Shaw

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

Alan Trammell

This year, if I'm voting, I'm voting for Colon.

I'm really disappointed. I like the idea of voting for the person, not the party.

Alan Keyes

I know who I'm voting for, and I'm not disclosing that.

Glenn Beck

I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump.

Glenn Beck

I don't feel comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton.

Jay Griffiths

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Carly Fiorina

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

H. L. Mencken

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

Gerald R. Ford

Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.

Jon Stewart

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.

Paul Weyrich

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Paul Wolfowitz

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.

Lil Wayne

I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.

Noam Chomsky

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.

Noam Chomsky

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

R. C. Sproul

When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]