Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

David Letterman

I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.

Alan Trammell

This year, if I'm voting, I'm voting for Colon.

Gloria Steinem

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

H. L. Mencken

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

R. C. Sproul

When you enter the voting booth, don't leave your Christianity in the parking lot.

Noam Chomsky

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.

Gerald R. Ford

Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.

Glenn Beck

I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump.

Glenn Beck

I don't feel comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton.

Ken Kesey

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

Ken Livingstone

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

Jay Griffiths

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Carly Fiorina

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Henry David Thoreau

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Chris Patten

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

Jello Biafra

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Howie Carr

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.

George Carlin

If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

Amy Walter

Cuellar has some vulnerabilities with his voting record. But I just don't think Ciro is doing everything to make this as competitive as it could be.

Peter Rodman

don't go to the latrine without voting in parliament. This is not helpful.

Nigel Lythgoe

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

Nigel Farage

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

David Barton

You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.

George Bernard Shaw

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

Henry Cuellar

I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

Noam Chomsky

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

John Adams

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

Kerry Washington

Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

Timothy Zahn

How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

Robert A. Heinlein

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Joss Stone

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?