Ballot Box Quotes

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
Virginia Foxx

Forward, Win, America

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
King Abdullah II

Work, Time, Government

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.
Nick Clegg

Through, Tell, Point

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
Robert Caro

Power, Political, Democracy

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
Charles Rangel

Love, Through, Office

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
Bob Brown

News, Planet, Global

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
John Jay Hooker

Time, Justice, Office

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells

Freedom, Giving, Law

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Ernestine Rose

Men, Woman, Rude

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
Bob Schaffer

After, Whole, Makes

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
Rose Schneiderman

Beauty, Women, Tell

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
James Buchanan

Men, Free, Among

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier

Box, Closer, Rapist

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