Voting Quotes

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. (Tom Stoppard)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. View quote
Coretta Scott King
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 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
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Germaine Greer
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. View quote
James Bovard
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. View quote
Robert Frost
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It. View quote
Ken Livingstone
[Shorter variant:] In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. (Benjamin Graham)
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. View quote
Emma Goldman
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
Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do. View quote
David Levithan
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
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. View quote
Robert Teeter
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. View quote
Virgil Goode
Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican. View quote
Yeardley Smith
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. View quote
Zalmay Khalilzad
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. (Howard Zinn)
Our old-fashioned system is better than any new-fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas. View quote
Jean Chrétien
A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3. View quote
Boris Johnson
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor. View quote
Charles Barkley