Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Paul Farmer

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban

Our only hope is to control the vote.
Medgar Evers

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.
Chuck Zito

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.
Toby Keith

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.
Alice Paul

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Alice Paul

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
Stephen Ambrose

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
Whoopi Goldberg

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Jose Saramago

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
Charlton Heston

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?
Tim Robbins

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
Clarence Thomas

Anybody who knows me knows my vote can't be bought.
Judy Davis

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
Rebecca West