Vote Quotes - page 5

The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote. (Sarah Dessen)
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts." View quote
Barney Frank
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality, the guerrilla outbreak cannot be promoted, since the possibilities of peaceful struggle have not yet been exhausted. View quote
Che Guevara
You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. View quote
Emma Goldman
I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how. View quote
Joseph Stalin
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. View quote
Mary Augusta Ward
Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years! View quote
Tony Blair
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night. (Finley Peter Dunne)
Back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said that the American people would never vote for socialism but he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The Clintons represent three decades of the Democrat party being completely sure of getting the black vote, while doing nothing to help the black community in return. View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them. View quote
Mario Puzo
Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity. View quote
Naomi Klein
If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do. View quote
Stan Laurel
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier. View quote
Stacy Schiff
I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake? View quote
Tim Robbins
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. (Vachel Lindsay)
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups. View quote
George Michael
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well. View quote
Eleanor Catton
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. View quote
Louis L'Amour