Voting Quotes

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.
Jello Biafra

Time, Great, Down

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Birch Bayh

Age, Good, Thought

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne Westwood

Against, Party, Labour

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.
Oriana Fallaci

Why, Vote, Themselves

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.
Tony Campolo

Young, Older, Democratic

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
Tony Campolo

Powerful, Become, Once

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
Kathleen Sebelius

Dad, Rights, Act

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Yourself, Express, Citizen

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Arlen Specter

Democracy, Returns, Enormous

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.
Eliot Spitzer

Politics, Women, Smart

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
Yeardley Smith

Dead, Republican, Oh

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.
Theresa May

Time, Feeling, Said

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
Margaret Atwood

Life, Fight, Writing

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
Eddie Vedder

Technology, Democracy, Reason

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.
Tim Scott

Best, Future, American

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.
Lucy Powell

Good, Democracy, General

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
John Ensign

Country, Act, Community

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
Stockwell Day

Around, Purpose, Point

Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh

Civic, Sacrament

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.
Alveda King

Change, Black, Vote

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
Katherine Harris

Good, Best, Future

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
Eric Cantor

Political, Together, Him

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Alfred Emanuel Smith

Democracy, Counting

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
Robert Teeter

Politics, Country, Economic

So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.
Betty Hill

Before, Vote, American

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.
DeForest Soaries

Life, Act, Principle

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.
Joe Baca

Honor, Nation, High

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
Frances O'Grady

Work, Strong, Decision

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.
Tom Wolfe

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.
Mo Rocca

Vote, Everyone, Used

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