Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan Quayle

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan Quayle

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
Howard Zinn

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford

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.
Charles Bukowski

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Aeschylus

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
Eugene V. Debs

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
Jose Marti

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
Al Sharpton

I think it's important to vote.
Vivienne Westwood

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch

I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Marian Wright Edelman

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
Al Gore