Vote Quotes

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George Jean Nathan)
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. View quote
George R. R. Martin
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. View quote
Bill Vaughan
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. View quote
O. Henry
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. View quote
Franklin Pierce Adams
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. View quote
Robert Mugabe
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. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
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. View quote
Gore Vidal
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Bernard Baruch)
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper. View quote
Larry Flynt
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. View quote
Abba Eban
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. View quote
Karl Rove
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. (H. L. Mencken)
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. View quote
Dan Quayle
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. View quote
Joseph Stalin
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. View quote
Edna O'Brien