Voting Quotes

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Up...

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elec...

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life...

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don't mind get...

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, ...

I also hold a settling of questions by the referendum to be an unsatisfactory procedure, because the...

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon wo...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women -...

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addr...

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a...

I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intell...

Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen hum...

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that...

You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone ...

Money has replaced the vote.

If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, the...

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One ca...

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sp...

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The re...

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, a...

My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefo...

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is...

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and ...

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul...

The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail abou...

If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of...

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contes...

Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there th...

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include "None of the above". People may la...

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or ...

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection th...

As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans wou...

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo...

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five w...

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majorit...

[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destr...

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...