Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Barton

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

Alan Trammell

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

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.

Peter Rodman

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

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.

Chris Patten

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

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.

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.

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.

Ken Kesey

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

Ken Livingstone

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

Noam Chomsky

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

Gloria Steinem

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

H. L. Mencken

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

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.]

R. C. Sproul

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

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Jello Biafra

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

George Carlin

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Glenn Beck

I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump.

Glenn Beck

I don't feel comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton.

Neal Boortz

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Jacob Zuma

The results will be very good.

Jacob Zuma

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

Nigel Lythgoe

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

Nigel Farage

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

Kerry Washington

Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

James Madison

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

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.