Vote Quotes - page 2

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to. (Germaine Greer)
Ideal legislators do not vote their interests. View quote
John Rawls
The "democracy gap" in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the "least worst” every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the "least worst” gets worse. View quote
Ralph Nader
The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts. View quote
Al Gore
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. View quote
Rebecca West
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote. View quote
Ann Coulter
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. View quote
Alice Cooper
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms. View quote
Sarah Palin
Vote early and vote often. View quote
Al Capone
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. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
A man without a vote is man without protection. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport. View quote
Yoshiro Mori
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. View quote
Birch Bayh
In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
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. View quote
Ernest Istook
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. View quote
Louise Slaughter
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. View quote
Lyn Nofziger
I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich. View quote
Vivian Campbell
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. (Zalmay Khalilzad)
I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values. View quote
John McCain
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. View quote
Daniel Webster
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency. View quote
Robert Mugabe
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: "The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie. View quote
Antonin Scalia