Vote Quotes

‘The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.’ – John Lewis

‘We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.’ – Ed Markey

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

‘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

‘A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.’ – Robert Byrne

‘The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.’ – Mohit Chauhan

‘If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.’ – Ed Koch

‘Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘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

‘A vote for me is a vote completely thrown away.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.’ – W. C. Fields

‘A man without a vote is man without protection.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.’ – Joseph P. Kennedy

‘I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘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 you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are.’ – Alice Cooper

‘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

‘Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Elections aren’t just about who votes but who doesn’t vote.’ – Michelle Obama

‘If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).’ – Ayn Rand

‘I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn’t feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I’m a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn’t mean they should vote for the person I like. That’s why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.’ – Bob Newhart

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

‘If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.’ – Jay Leno

‘I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.” – Thomas Sowell

‘The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.’ – Alexei Navalny

‘The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.’ – Lynn Westmoreland

‘We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 – except Goldwater in ’64 – the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.’ – Ann Coulter

‘I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.’ – Stokely Carmichael

‘After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.’ – Barack Obama

‘A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.’ – Rutherford B. Hayes

‘You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘I did not endorse Trump, because I had condemned President Obama for telling us what to do in our referendum. But I did say that if I was a U.S. citizen, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton even if she paid me.’ – Nigel Farage

‘Our only hope is to control the vote.’ – Medgar Evers

‘I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.’ – John Kennedy

‘The choice of whom to vote for in a general election is not only a choice of Prime Minister. It is a choice about the future of our country, the values we want it to stand for, the principles we want it to be governed by.’ – Nick Boles

‘As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.’ – Molly Ivins

‘Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.’ – William E. Simon

‘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

‘Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘One vote. That’s a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.’ – Paul Harvey

‘Here’s the facts: We’ve got to have I.D. to go vote, you have to show an I.D. to buy alcohol, you have got to show an I.D. need to buy tobacco, and you have to show and have a driver’s license to drive.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.’ – Louis L’Amour

‘Every citizen’s vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.’ – Gene Green

‘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

‘I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.’ – Kanye West

‘I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.’ – Oliver Tambo

‘If you can’t put your values into your vote, we don’t have a democracy.’ – Jill Stein

‘I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don’t believe in. If you believe in the third party, that’s the guy you need to voice for. That’s how you change things.’ – Gary Johnson

‘I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice… This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.’ – Hosni Mubarak

‘As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.’ – Karl Rove

‘We’re a miserably violent species. But there’s a complication, which is we don’t hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it’s the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it’s the right kind of violence, we love it.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘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

‘When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there’s no limit, then it makes a mockery of ‘one man, one vote.” – George Takei

‘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

‘I’m one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.’ – Peter Hook

‘We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation – no compromise, no filibuster – and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.’ – Bayard Rustin

‘Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘You constantly hear about voter fraud… but you don’t see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.’ – Eric Holder

‘I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.’ – John F. Kennedy

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

‘The vote is precious. It’s almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.’ – John Lewis

‘For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.’ – Michelle Bachelet

”Vote Love’ means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what’s right for humanity.’ – Macklemore

‘As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.’ – Gore Vidal

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

‘With ranked choice voting, every vote matters more than ever before, and it matters to every single candidate.’ – Ritchie Torres

‘Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.’ – Joe Biden

‘Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That’s democracy.’ – Dmitry Medvedev

‘Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.’ – Francois Hollande

‘Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people’s votes and the people’s guns are always inseparable twins.’ – Robert Mugabe

‘I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.’ – Giacomo Casanova

‘I’ll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That’s all I need to know.’ – Seth Rogen

‘You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.’ – Lee Kuan Yew

‘We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn’t vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.’ – David Suzuki

‘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.’ – Jay Griffiths

‘Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.’ – Lisa Stansfield

‘I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn’t paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what’s going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.’ – Ron Paul

‘For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.’ – Thomas E. Mann

‘Would I have voted to leave the European Union? Yes, I would. My theory there is that Britain was fed up having won two World Wars against the Germans and had reached the boiling and breaking point of being told where to live and what to do by a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium. It was out of that frustration that the vote to leave was made.’ – Robin Leach

‘I certainly respect other people’s opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.’ – Charles Stanley

‘And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘Vote Leave argued during the referendum that a Leave victory should deliver the huge changes that the public wanted and the U.K. should make science and technology the focus of a profound process of national renewal.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You’re dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won’t do that to other people.’ – Ian MacKaye

‘If you don’t vote, you don’t count.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘The country will never vote in favour of those who do not acknowledge Lord Ram and Lord Krishna.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? – Barry Goldwater’ – Barry Goldwater

‘I don’t understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote.’ – John Lewis

‘You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, ‘Hey time’s up; we need to vote. We live in this country.’ People had to call out ‘time’s up’ on enslaving people, you know.’ – Debra Granik

‘Politics – I still think it’s a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It’s not about the people: it’s about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don’t have the balls to say, ‘I believe in this. I don’t care what happens.” – Jay-Z

‘The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.’ – Simon Cowell

‘The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It’s played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ than voted in the general election.’ – John Major

‘I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.’ – Davy Crockett

‘People aren’t going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.’ – Wes Streeting

‘Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on ‘The Walking Dead’! – Tom Savini’ – Tom Savini

‘You can’t ask other people to believe you and vote for you if you don’t back yourself.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don’t know what they would do.’ – Dennis Prager

‘Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.’ – Harry S Truman

‘Congress has turned its back on America’s working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.’ – James P. Hoffa

‘You actually need to go somewhere and vote and make sure you don’t have corrupt police. But there’s a faith in technology as the savior, as the new Messiah, and that’s definitely not the case.’ – Peter Sunde

‘You’re not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.’ – Carl Lewis

‘The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.’ – Edna O’Brien

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

‘Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.’ – Charlie Kirk

‘Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.’ – Will Rogers

‘I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.’ – Michael D. Higgins

‘I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.’ – Pat Paulsen

‘If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us – for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet – why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?’ – Pat Buchanan

‘I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let’s make good choices, vote for democracy.’ – Olga Tokarczuk

‘I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.’ – Zachary Taylor

‘Am I going to vote for Trump? Absolutely not. I do not believe in his platform.’ – Daryl Davis

‘I always vote for the guy I think can get it done. And it ain’t nobody’s business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice. And that just blows people’s minds when they hear that.’ – Toby Keith

‘Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.’ – Tina Fey

‘I’m pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.’ – James Denton

‘But I do believe that a woman’s truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.’ – Lucy Stone

‘My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women’s rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women’s rights.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.’ – Alice Paul

‘I’m very much in the trenches, and I don’t live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there’s always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.’ – Pink

‘I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It’s my identity in many ways.’ – Sebastian Thrun

‘No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building.’ – Hozier

‘The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.’ – Ali Khamenei

‘In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.’ – Jim Mattis

‘It doesn’t matter who you vote for. It’s still the same billionaires that run the world.’ – Geezer Butler

‘If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.’ – Tom Graves

‘Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we’ve had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals?’ – Ben Shapiro

‘I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.’ – W. C. Fields

‘The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can’t get out the vote in the midterm elections.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘I’ve fought against the National Popular Vote to make sure someone like Hillary Clinton can’t steal their way to the presidency.’ – Lauren Boebert

‘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

‘Sometimes Supreme Court justices surprise you with their decisions – you think they’re going to vote one way, but they vote a different way, and I keep an open mind about that. But I think a moral compass is really important for a Supreme Court justice, as it is for any political appointee.’ – Sunny Hostin

‘As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we’re not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?’ – Tim Kaine

‘There’s several ways of saying what’s on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain’t too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.’ – Woody Guthrie

‘I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people – because they look like them… That’s American politics, pure and simple.’ – Samuel L. Jackson

‘If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.’ – Vance McAllister

‘I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer

‘We can’t make the public vote for a candidate. And I would never want to campaign for any political party.’ – Ranjeet

‘I don’t follow politics; it doesn’t interest me. So why should I vote?’ – Mario Balotelli

‘We need to vote people out of office that are perpetuating issues affecting young people, like gun violence.’ – David Hogg

‘For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?’ – Lord Byron

‘Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘The work that Rock The Vote does is incredible. So it’s cool to collab with such an iconic organization.’ – Lil Jon

‘Where I live in south London, it is a very Tory area, so a Labour vote is a wasted vote. My leanings would certainly be not to vote Tory.’ – Dominic Holland

‘You don’t just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.’ – Jacob Zuma

‘People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.’ – John Cornyn

‘Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.’ – Billy Graham

‘Science doesn’t work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It’s either right or it’s wrong. Do we vote on whether genetics is a good theory or not? Of course not.’ – Alan Stern

‘The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.’ – Lionel Sosa

‘People vote with their hearts, not their heads.’ – Irene Rosenfeld

‘I wouldn’t have voted in favour of Brexit if I was able to vote.’ – Declan McKenna

‘I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Alexander Hamilton, of New York, a signer of the Constitution, was a member of the ratifying convention in his state and did more than any other member to wring the approval of the new instrument from delegates practically instructed by their constituents to vote against it.’ – Charles A. Beard

‘I don’t like Mitt Romney. I wouldn’t vote for Mitt Romney in a million years. Mitt Romney is no ally of the gay community.’ – Dave Rubin

‘I love election day, and I love to vote.’ – Susan Straight

‘The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.’ – Ralph Nader

‘In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Well-meaning people might stick their fingers in their ears and vote for Biden out of nostalgia for a Democratic Party that no longer exists or out of exhaustion at the relentless anti-Trump barrage.’ – Miranda Devine

‘The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.’ – Ida B. Wells

‘Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can ‘the consent of the governed’ be given if the right to vote be denied?’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘When push comes to shove, people vote alone.’ – Meles Zenawi

‘I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn’t decide whom to vote for.’ – Andy Warhol

‘The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.’ – Carol Moseley Braun

‘One can dismiss the Prime Minister of India most easily. All that is necessary is for Parliament to pass a vote of no-confidence.’ – Manmohan Singh

‘I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.’ – Martin McGuinness

‘Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It’s just plain wrong.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.’ – Elmer Davis

‘In 1992, the most treasured voter was a voter that would sort of swing back and forth, one that might vote for Republican for president, Democrat for governor. The voter that didn’t have that strong of a partisan ID. These were the voters that we targeted.’ – James Carville

‘Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.’ – Marine Le Pen

‘If you’ve seen the ‘Shawshank Redemption’ and if you think Morgan Freeman’s character should have died in prison, vote for the other person. And if you think, and you believe in redemption, and a second chance, you know, I’m your candidate.’ – John Fetterman

‘Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don’t vote in American or European elections. They don’t make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.’ – Hugh Evans

‘We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.’ – Clementa C. Pinckney

‘You can’t vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.’ – Russel Honore

‘Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.’ – Rick Perry

‘What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.’ – Stan Laurel

‘I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.’ – Vachel Lindsay

‘I do vote, and naturally, I vote for so-called extremist parties, the further to the right the better, but that’s where my participation in politics ends.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘As far as I am concerned this referendum should settle the matter. I believe it will one way or another be decisive. Britain will not want to go through this again. On the other hand if we vote to leave, this really is irreversible.’ – David Cameron

‘One of Ed Miliband’s shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘My mum’s super Labour, and my gran. We all love Jeremy Corbyn in the family. Those are very deep roots and I feel like I could never not vote for Labour. Or I could never vote for the Tories because of that.’ – Olly Alexander

‘I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.’ – Sajid Javid

‘I ran my first campaign when I was 11. My slogan was ‘Vote McVey, vote the right way.’ I’ve never surpassed it!’ – Esther McVey

‘When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.’ – Michael Baumgartner

‘The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America’s young people, ‘We be thugs.’ The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘If Republicans aren’t willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is to blow up the filibuster, then ignore McConnell’s taunts and do it.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘If you want to go around saying that giving women the vote wrecked the country and still be taken seriously, it helps to be handing out $100 bills.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.’ – Jack Nicholson

‘Voting is super important, and your vote counts.’ – GloZell

‘If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.’ – Paul Harvey

‘I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.’ – Medgar Evers

‘When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that’s just unbelievable.’ – Laura Bush

‘We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that’s a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.’ – Nick Lampson

‘I’m glad I can’t vote.’ – Kevin Gates

‘In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn’t or couldn’t pass the literacy test.’ – John Lewis

‘The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

‘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

‘The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.’ – Tori Amos

‘I’m attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for – I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.’ – Eric Holder

‘I didn’t vote, exactly. This is the first time I’ve been politically inclined and active, and I think Donald Trump is a tremendous president. And I wanted to be educated. I wanted to do a deep dive before I started going out there and saying stuff as opposed to other people who mindlessly vote.’ – Candace Owens

‘Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.’ – Eric Metaxas

‘When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn’t vote for you.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Being a Jehovah’s Witness, I don’t celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don’t vote.’ – Prince

‘One of the great tragedies of Brexit has been that despite the fact there was an unprecedented public vote for change, Brexit was almost hijacked, owned, and controlled by a technocratic establishment.’ – Claire Fox

‘I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!’ – Mary Harris Jones

‘Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers – poets, actors, journalists – they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don’t fight science and they don’t fight technology.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.’ – Brian Boitano

‘The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen’s right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.’ – Michelle Obama

‘George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, ‘If you all can’t vote for me, don’t vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!’ And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘If you’re going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you’d better be sure that God has faith in them.’ – Lewis Black

‘I did not vote for Donald Trump and I do not support him but I believe that Trump is the best thing to happen to this country in a long time. He’s bringing out the country’s ugliness. There’s no turning a blind eye anymore.’ – Daryl Davis

‘One person, one vote sounds so reasonable and – dare I say it – democratic. But the voting process in America is anything but fair and balanced.’ – Richard Belzer

‘One could establish a system in one state in which Judea and Samaria are jointly held. The Jews would vote for a Jewish parliament and the Palestinians for an Arab parliament, and we would create a system in which life is shared.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote.’ – John Lewis

‘I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.’ – Jeannette Rankin

‘Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that’s what’s happening. They either go, or they don’t go. It’s all politics. It’s all demographics.’ – Warren Beatty

‘When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.’ – Alexei Navalny

‘I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don’t really vote in television, you’re never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.’ – Bill Bixby

‘The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘The woman who can’t influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.’ – E. M. Forster

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

‘This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in ‘American Idol’ than in any US election.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘The Republicans are whistling past the graveyard. If we don’t change our policies on immigration, you’re going to be looking at Iran Deal after Iran Deal after Iran Deal. I can count on Americans to protect Israel. I don’t count on foreigners to care about Israel, and that’s who’s coming in to vote.’ – Ann Coulter

‘Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.’ – Nawaz Sharif

‘Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘If someone says, ‘Democracy is a sham, those people don’t speak for me… the system’s rigged,’ you say, ‘Vote.’ Someone says, ‘I was making a statement by not voting,’ and then you say, ‘Well I can’t hear it.’ – Jesse Williams’ – Jesse Williams

‘Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations – in ’93 and ’94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Requirements for an ID are not voter suppression – they are just commonsense steps to ensure people don’t vote if they are ineligible, don’t vote using false identities and don’t vote more than once.’ – Charlie Kirk

‘Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don’t. For all Americans together.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I was re-elected as general secretary with almost 100 per cent of the vote. And I am very surprised by that. Because I am quite old. I am the oldest member in the leadership of Vietnam. I myself asked to be retired but due to responsibility tasked on me by the party I had to accept.’ – Nguyen Phu Trong

‘I don’t trade my vote for money.’ – Bob Packwood

‘The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.’ – A. A. Gill

‘My experience is that the Australian people rarely get it wrong – they will vote for a united party that is able to look after their interests and the national interest.’ – Bob Hawke

‘I’m not saying I shouldn’t have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn’t have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don’t vote because I don’t know anything about politics. And honestly, I can’t believe they’d let me. Isn’t that an important thing? They’ll just let me pick the president! I don’t gotta know anything!’ – Michael Che

‘It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.’ – Deb Haaland

‘I’m happy with the vote and the support. I’m very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.’ – Michael D. Higgins

‘We hadn’t heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they’d be too tired to play it. So we didn’t know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer

‘America is the greatest country on Earth – and when people vote with their feet, they come here.’ – Michael Bloomberg

‘It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.’ – Mary Augusta Ward

‘Teens say there’s nothing I can do because I have no vote. The truth is, the only vote that matters is how you spend your money and who you give it to. Each coin is giving power. Notice and be careful who you give your power to.’ – Aidan Gallagher

‘I do vote. I have voted ever since I’ve been eligible to vote.’ – Peyton Manning

‘I can’t control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I’ve been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.’ – Mo Brooks

‘People tend to vote the present tense – not the subjective.’ – Diane Sawyer

‘Democracy only has substance if there’s the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there’s a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there’s some challenge. If there isn’t rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.’ – Timothy D. Snyder

‘Allowing young people to vote for the first time while they are still at school would allow them to engage with the political process, as well as the relevant issues, with the support of teachers to help them make informed choices.’ – Emily Thornberry

‘I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better I feel.’ – Nicole Polizzi

‘Democracy is not what we don’t want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a set of affirmative values by which we can move forward. If we cannot insert our values into our vote, and our vote is simply against what we fear most, then we are a ship lost at sea.’ – Jill Stein

‘We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.’ – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

‘Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.’ – Michelle Bachelet

‘You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘As the quintessential swing state, Ohio has been on the front lines of battles to restrict access to the vote and make government less transparent. Conservatives know that they can’t win without putting a thumb on the scale of electoral outcomes.’ – Nina Turner

‘I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn’t vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.’ – Michael T. Flynn

‘All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia’s future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.’ – Carles Puigdemont

‘If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president.’ – Ann Coulter

‘Everyone’s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don’t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.’ – Ben Affleck

‘People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won’t be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.’ – Robert Mugabe

‘As much as I’d like to register Jesus to vote in Georgia, the law says I can’t do that.’ – Brian Kemp

‘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

‘The Liberal Party will not vote – no Liberal member of Parliament will vote – to take away a woman’s right to choose.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘I have friends who vote Tory, and I’m appalled, but that’s not to say they’re not great people in so many other ways.’ – Jo Brand

‘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

‘No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Don’t gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.’ – Najib Razak

‘I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.’ – Susan Straight

‘If the notion on this is we’re going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don’t vote for me.’ – Elizabeth Warren

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

‘Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let’s make America work, let’s make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.’ – Andrew Young

‘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 Stevenson I

‘Ed Miliband’s anti-immigration stance is odd: it’s hard to vote for a man who doesn’t have the confidence to defend his own existence.’ – Frankie Boyle

‘I’m moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what’s right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don’t aren’t sure, so they don’t go out and vote.’ – Peter Krause

‘Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.’ – John Lewis

‘If you want your uplift and development, vote for BSP.’ – Mayawati

‘You can’t just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 – almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It’s a complex country.’ – Brad Parscale

‘Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.’ – John Lewis

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

‘Vote early and vote often.’ – Al Capone

‘Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.’ – Bernard Levin

‘Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.’ – David Frost

‘What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? – Gilbert Highet’ – Gilbert Highet

‘I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘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

‘Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.’ – Franklin Pierce Adams

‘If you’re black in this country, if you’re a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?’ – Cher

‘The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote… so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1.’ – Jon Stewart

‘Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California’s schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.’ – Conan O’Brien

‘They’re saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.’ – Craig Kilborn

‘Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.’ – Howard Dean

‘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

‘Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.’ – Zell Miller

‘Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.’ – Alan Keyes

‘I’d say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you’ve lost your mind.’ – John Edwards

‘When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn’t because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.’ – Dick Cheney

‘Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man’s choice, and is highly prized.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate – and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.’ – Dick Cheney

‘I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘I don’t feel responsible for things I didn’t vote for.’ – Byron Dorgan

‘People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.’ – Ted Stevens

‘It is in Saudi Arabia’s best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.’ – Ben Nelson

‘Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.’ – Johnny Isakson

‘I don’t want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.’ – Mel Martinez

‘I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.’ – Mel Martinez

‘And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The Constitution doesn’t say that. The Constitution doesn’t say that that nominee shall have any vote at all. There doesn’t have to even be a vote.’ – Robert Byrd

‘Don’t forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you’re voting for Dole.’ – Eleanor Mondale

‘I don’t vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.’ – Gary Burghoff

‘I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.’ – Bob Weir

‘Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.’ – Will Harvey

‘My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican – just because I think reporters are smart.’ – Jerry Springer

‘I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn’t hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I’m proud of my stats, but I don’t think I ever got on for.’ – Joe Morgan

‘We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.’ – John Negroponte

‘The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.’ – Arundhati Roy

‘Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.’ – Valerie Harper

‘Everybody’s looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.’ – James E. Rogers

‘Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.’ – Hamid Karzai

‘Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.’ – Emmylou Harris

‘I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.’ – Connie Willis

‘The idea that you earn things – that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility, the vote, punishment… these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.’ – Dennis Prager

‘Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.’ – Stockwell Day

‘In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.’ – Stockwell Day

‘Seeing how those companies operate, it didn’t amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.’ – Madeleine Peyroux

‘It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.’ – Eddie Bernice Johnson

‘No, you can’t call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.’ – Gary Ackerman

‘I don’t know how anyone could vote Republican. It’s so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.’ – Vivian Campbell

‘Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.’ – Tanith Lee

‘Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they’re in safe hands.’ – Pim Fortuyn

‘America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it’s a strange situation as I feel almost like I’m in no-man’s land some of the time, because although I’m a resident, I still can’t vote so I don’t really have a say in what goes on where I live.’ – Rick Allen

‘It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.’ – Todd Akin

‘In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.’ – William M. Daley

‘The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.’ – Norm Dicks

‘So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.’ – Imran Khan

‘Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality – for the Postal Service and for all Americans.’ – John M. McHugh

‘People don’t vote for vice president, they vote for president.’ – Susan Estrich

‘No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.’ – Ginny Brown-Waite

‘As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.’ – Mario Monti

‘Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.’ – Betty Hill

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

‘General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.’ – Benazir Bhutto

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

‘You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, ‘I’m on strike’ than ‘I’m unemployed.’ And those are the people who vote for strikes.’ – Dick Wolf

‘If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.’ – Dick Wolf

‘The Greens have every right to run, that’s what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.’ – Peter Camejo

‘I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.’ – Patricia Ireland

‘Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.’ – David Cross

‘In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.’ – Dick Thornburgh

‘Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.’ – Dick Thornburgh

‘Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.’ – James L. Buckley

‘The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process – securing polling sites and providing security – that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.’ – John M. McHugh

‘The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.’ – Kenneth Blackwell

‘Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman’s right to vote.’ – Louise Slaughter

‘Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.’ – Louise Slaughter

‘I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn.’ – Ron Davies

‘George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.’ – Tony Snow

‘I am not interested in splitting the white vote.’ – Harold Washington

‘I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.’ – Jerry Falwell

‘I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.’ – Bruce Sterling

‘We vote – if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.’ – James P. Hoffa

‘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 cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.’ – Jim Ramstad

‘Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people – ‘if you value it, vote for it’ – and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.’ – Anne Campbell

‘I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote – not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?’ – Jello Biafra

‘You get elected, often, if you’re a woman, on the strength of the women’s vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.’ – Eleanor Clift

‘Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.’ – John Dingell

‘My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.’ – Todd Gitlin

‘Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.’ – Carol Moseley Braun

‘There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years – that’s why we’re not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.’ – David Zucker

‘Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.’ – Bob Schaffer

‘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

‘I think it’s important to vote.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent – yes, that’s right: less than 1 per cent.’ – Francis Maude

‘The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy – a philosophy that represents mainstream America.’ – Jay Alan Sekulow

‘But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.’ – Jeff Miller

‘I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.’ – Jeff Miller

‘Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.’ – Laura Miller

‘But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.’ – Birch Bayh

‘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

‘I would vote for the man who’s lived life, who’s done different occupations, who’s been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I’d vote for experience, honest experience.’ – Oliver Stone

‘By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?’ – Victoria Woodhull

‘I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.’ – Janet Reno

‘I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.’ – Dick Schaap

‘The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.’ – Hjalmar Branting

‘You must see the persons who are in charge – persons you can punish or vote for.’ – Joschka Fischer

‘I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can’t vote.’ – Henry Winkler

‘I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward.’ – Henry Villard

‘I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I’m more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don’t know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don’t think we are the same at all.’ – LaToya London

‘And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that – you’ve got to remember we’re not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We’re talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.’ – Hamilton Jordan

‘When you talk about evangelicals, don’t forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans – well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical – will probably vote Democratic.’ – Tony Campolo

‘It’s very important to vote. People died for this right.’ – Lenny Kravitz

‘When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don’t vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.’ – Joan Blades

‘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

‘Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.’ – George Michael

‘Today’s vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation’s energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient.’ – Ron Lewis

‘If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘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

‘First of all, I’m in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn’t vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.’ – Marty Meehan

‘I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I’m often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.’ – Lynn Redgrave

‘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

‘We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.’ – Jim Cooper

‘But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.’ – Clare Short

‘Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.’ – Kenny Marchant

‘I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.’ – Julian Bond

‘I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes – I don’t think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn’t vote for a guy who wouldn’t reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.’ – Esther Dyson

‘To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.’ – Ernest Istook

‘We are just interested in dealing with the people we’re paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.’ – David Neeleman

‘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

‘Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private… and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.’ – DeForest Soaries

‘I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.’ – DeForest Soaries

‘What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that’s wrong.’ – DeForest Soaries

‘When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.’ – DeForest Soaries

‘Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.’ – Sherwood Boehlert

‘I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it’s a bad thing.’ – David Lloyd

‘I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.’ – Pat Robertson

‘I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven’t said that.’ – Pat Robertson

‘McCain I’d vote against under any circumstance.’ – Pat Robertson

‘There’s an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they’ve taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.’ – Pat Robertson

‘The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.’ – Wendell Willkie

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

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

‘With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.’ – Adam Rickitt

‘I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.’ – Geena Davis

‘France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.’ – Laurent Fabius

‘Everybody expects that their vote’s going to count.’ – Stephanie Tubbs Jones

‘I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.’ – Stephanie Tubbs Jones

‘I’d like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.’ – Joshua Lederberg

‘Of the fellows least likely to be president, you’d have to vote Jack No. 1.’ – George Smathers

‘For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.’ – Kendrick Meek

‘I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.’ – Thomas Jordan Jarvis

‘I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.’ – Thomas Jordan Jarvis

‘I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.’ – Barack Obama

‘When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.’ – Andrew Sullivan

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

‘We don’t want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.’ – Ann Coulter

‘It’s clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.’ – George Galloway

‘We got the vote, which we should’ve been born with, in 1920. Everything we’ve had to struggle for – it’s ridiculous.’ – Helen Thomas

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

‘Once you don’t vote your ideals… that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.’ – Ralph Nader

‘If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.’ – Pete Coors

‘A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.’ – Lyn Nofziger

‘When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.’ – Robert Hunter

‘House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?’ – Bill Pascrell

‘Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don’t they take up their own causes and obvious needs?’ – Dorothy Thompson

‘I think it’s inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you’re reauthorizing the war all over again.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I’ll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.’ – John Edwards

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

‘There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.’ – Emma Goldman

‘Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘I don’t envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘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

‘Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.’ – Aaron Brown

‘People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.’ – Bob Black

‘Anybody who knows me knows my vote can’t be bought.’ – Judy Davis

‘I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.’ – Barbara Lee

‘It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.’ – Zalmay Khalilzad

‘There’s no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist… If he swings, it will be from right to far right.’ – Jonathan Turley

‘A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.’ – Yoshiro Mori

‘I will vote my hopes and not my fears.’ – Herb Kohl

‘Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.’ – Larry Craig

‘I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.’ – Bob Menendez

‘The president said, ‘You’ve got to vote your conscience.’ – Scott McClellan

‘Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.’ – Khaleda Zia

‘I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it’s for five years.’ – Laurent Fabius

‘I’m inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It’s a close call.’ – Max Baucus

‘The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.’ – Lyn Nofziger

‘Maybe some people thought I was ‘safe’ so they didn’t really bothered to vote for me at all.’ – Chris Daughtry

‘I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.’ – Mike Johanns

‘We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don’t get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it’s almost a temper tantrum.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.’ – Ken Mehlman

‘You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what’s going on in Washington, D.C.’ – Eric Massa

‘Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.’ – Eric Massa

‘Make no mistake, a ‘yes’ vote on the Democrats’ health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.’ – John Boehner

‘In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘Our Founders warned against this. They said don’t… that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.’ – Sharron Angle

‘Listen, I, I did vote – I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.’ – Michael Bennet

‘I’m a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn’t appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.’ – Claire McCaskill

‘And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.’ – John Cornyn

‘As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.’ – Arthur C. Brooks

‘I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it’s George Bush or Barack Obama. And I’m going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.’ – Harry Reid

‘When we talk about fighting for our country, we’re talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.’ – Sarah Palin

‘I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.’ – Casey Abrams

‘I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.’ – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

‘This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I’m black but because of my policies.’ – Herman Cain

‘I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That’s one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we’ll able to pay our bills down the road.’ – Marco Rubio

‘I think the question is who am I? That’s what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.’ – Tim Scott

‘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

‘I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he’s not pro-life.’ – Alveda King

‘If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I’ll consider giving him my vote.’ – Alveda King

‘I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country’s membership of the eurozone in danger.’ – Lucas Papademos

‘Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.’ – Rick Mercer

‘The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you’re throwing your vote away.’ – Rick Mercer

‘This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.’ – Rick Mercer

‘People didn’t vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.’ – Fatos Nano

‘This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media’s inability – or unwillingness – to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.’ – Eric Alterman

‘If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.’ – Eric Liu

‘If we can’t have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we’ve got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.’ – Jeff Flake

‘I’ve always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it’s important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.’ – Jim Knight

‘I ask Hoosiers to come together and vote for Barack Obama to be our next President.’ – Joe Andrew

‘I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘I am a United States citizen and I vote.’ – Martha Plimpton

‘I would vote for a Mormon.’ – Matt Stone

‘I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn’t count. I’m trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘If you believe the disappointments – if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I’m asking for your vote.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It’s a form of taxation without representation. I don’t think we can do that.’ – Mike Lee

‘If I believe your jobs plan, I’m going to vote for you.’ – Rick Scott

‘I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.’ – Eric Massa

‘If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I’d have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.’ – Charles Kennedy

‘I don’t vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.’ – Curt Schilling

‘America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.’ – David Frum

‘If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?’ – Alan Nunnelee

‘I don’t always vote in general elections, but I think I’ve always voted Labour.’ – Paul Merton

‘I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that’s why I’m anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.’ – Jim Renacci

‘I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.’ – Alan K. Simpson

‘I’ve always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that’s the core of who you are. But there’s always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.’ – Chris Christie

‘I don’t see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.’ – Mitt Romney

‘If you’re going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what’s in it. You can’t depend on other people.’ – Justin Amash

‘I don’t see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There’s so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.’ – Robert Cray

‘Those who are outraged will vote.’ – Roger Stone

‘The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I’m a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.’ – Ron Suskind

‘And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don’t vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it’s my responsibility to read the amendments.’ – 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.’ – Henry Cuellar

‘We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.’ – Nan Hayworth

‘In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists – I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.’ – Ted Cruz

‘People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don’t think that it’s that important.’ – Rob Portman

‘Not even my parents know how I vote.’ – Shepard Smith

‘The GOP can’t even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.’ – Luis Fortuno

‘I have big ideas. If you don’t like them, don’t vote for me.’ – Terry McAuliffe

‘If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don’t vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn’t exercise your vote.’ – Jean Charest

‘The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it’s a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.’ – Jeffrey Eugenides

‘I wouldn’t vote for Obama.’ – Dave Mustaine

‘With respect to Barack Obama, let’s face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.’ – Artur Davis

‘Listen, we’re going to have to fight for every vote.’ – David Plouffe

‘From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens’ vote is not diluted.’ – Rick Scott

‘I can’t imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don’t dilute legitimate U.S. citizens’ vote.’ – Rick Scott

‘When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.’ – Susana Martinez

‘I’m not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.’ – Fred Upton

‘There’s a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you’re voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.’ – Gwen Moore

‘You can’t just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa

‘Economic opportunities will win the women’s vote.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.’ – Jack Kemp

‘First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.’ – Jim DeMint

‘The only people that should vote should be legal.’ – Pam Bondi

‘I don’t vote and I got nothing to do with it.’ – Prince

‘I tell people I won’t vote to go to war unless I’m ready to go or send my kids.’ – Rand Paul

‘People don’t like to vote against something that’s so incredibly popular.’ – Rand Paul

‘The debt-ceiling vote isn’t about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America’s commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.’ – John Sununu

‘Republicans are definitely pro-birth – they’ll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘I used to vote Democrat.’ – Herman Cain

‘I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.’ – Ann Coulter

‘The most powerful thing we own is our vote.’ – Bev Perdue

‘The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn’t keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that’s the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama!’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

‘Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.’ – Bev Perdue

‘Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” – Evan Bayh

‘Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can’t let that happen.’ – Kerry Washington

‘My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you’re on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities – a ‘we’re all in it together’ society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.’ – William J. Clinton

‘If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.’ – William J. Clinton

‘If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.’ – William J. Clinton

‘We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!’ – Jim Messina

‘If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I’ll buy one. I’ll take that one home.’ – Grover Norquist

‘The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.’ – Bill Kristol

‘Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.’ – Barack Obama

‘In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can’t mean that in the judicial context or we’re in real trouble.’ – Anthony Kennedy

‘The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn’t think my vote mattered because I didn’t have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.’ – Carly Fiorina

‘When it comes to relationships, it’s nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else’s. That’s not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, ‘Vote for me – I’m perfect. I’ll be this for you and never do anything wrong.” – Hayden Panettiere

‘I won the youth vote in Massachusetts and in California. I did very well with it in Ohio.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it’s OK to vote for us. But we won’t run the economy into the ground at the same time.’ – Louise Mensch

‘America’s workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.’ – John Sweeney

‘I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I’m a different kind of ‘liberal’ and I think people should be true to themselves. If you’re Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.’ – Jon Lovitz

‘I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.’ – Katherine Harris

‘Don’t vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.’ – Ben Stein

‘It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.’ – Arlen Specter

‘I’m constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn’t vote for me but admire my positions.’ – George McGovern

‘If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘I’ve always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.’ – William Hague

‘America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.’ – Peter Welch

‘Well, I’m like most Americans, we don’t vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.’ – Gene Simmons

‘I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.’ – Gene Simmons

‘People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn’t slam him. I said, ‘Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn’t a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.” – J. C. Watts

‘The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.’ – J. C. Watts

‘The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can’t bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.’ – J. C. Watts

‘It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.’ – Margaret Cho

‘I can’t tell anyone to vote.’ – David A. Siegel

‘If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what’s going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.’ – Ashley Greene

‘Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don’t just vote. Know what you’re voting for, and stand by that.’ – Nikki Reed

‘I, for one, am quite willing to join the ‘forgive, forget and move on’ crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.’ – Tony Campolo

‘I vote and I do jury duty.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.’ – Karl Rove

‘As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don’t vote, we’re not doing our part. We’ll become some sort of oligarchy.’ – Jason Mraz

‘The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world’s publishing industry to jump to their tune.’ – Doris Lessing

‘Well, let me just say – I mean, I’m not a person who’s going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.’ – Gloria Allred

‘Democracy is about voting and it’s about a majority vote. And it’s time that we started exercising the Democratic process.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘You’re wrong if you think young people don’t deserve the vote.’ – Lucy Powell

‘At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.’ – Lucy Powell

‘Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.’ – Lucy Powell

‘In last year’s local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It’s not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they’ll vote.’ – Lucy Powell

‘I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I’m offering myself as the alternative PM – that’s one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition – but I’m not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘I’m elected. I don’t report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I’d quit tomorrow. I’m not tall, dark and handsome. They don’t vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can’t get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.’ – Joe Arpaio

‘Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in – the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill – and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.’ – Mo Rocca

‘Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that’s not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It’s the reason our system is so decentralized – in other words, chaotic.’ – Mo Rocca

‘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

‘I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.’ – David Byrne

‘I’m entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I’m an American.’ – David Mamet

‘I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I’m up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they’ll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they’ve clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!’ – Jason Isaacs

‘It’s not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I’m an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.’ – Pete Sampras

‘If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.’ – Tim Scott

‘Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don’t offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.’ – Ed Case

‘I’m fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.’ – Emir Kusturica

‘But I’m not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody’s ever successfully accused me of being realistic.’ – Frank Miller

‘The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.’ – John Podhoretz

‘All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.’ – John Podhoretz

‘Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.’ – John Podhoretz

‘The Republicans won the women’s vote in 2010. It was the first time since Ronald Reagan that the Republicans had won the women’s vote. And when you look at the issues that really drove women to the Republican Party, it’s been the issues related to the economy, to jobs, the debt.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.’ – Adam Carolla

‘Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don’t vote that way.’ – Adam Carolla

‘I don’t normally vote. I’m lazy and I never bought into the ‘Every vote counts.” – Adam Carolla

‘I’m not someone who believes in wasting my vote.’ – Robert Carlyle

‘I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don’t want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.’ – Sean Hannity

‘The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can’t figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.’ – Ed Koch

‘When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in ’77 in the general election. In ’81 I got 75%. In ’85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.’ – Ed Koch

‘The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected.’ – Benjamin Todd Jealous

‘Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.’ – Susan Orlean

‘Simply as a writer of books I’m thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.’ – Jonathan Raban

‘If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn’t have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.’ – Ken Livingstone

‘I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.’ – Steve Daines

‘No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you – a reason to hope – a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.’ – Mike DeWine

‘I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.’ – Russ Feingold

‘To me, it’s not necessarily about whom you vote for, it’s more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There’s a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples’ right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘I grew up in the military. I’ve lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they’re out there fighting for other countries’ rights to vote… Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the ‘Authorization for Use of Military Force’ – an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.’ – Barbara Lee

‘I vote in every general election, but I’m not a party member or an ideologue. I’ve never told anyone who I’ve voted for.’ – Brian Lamb

‘If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for him? Personally, I might not disqualify him out of hand; one out of three Americans believe we have had Visitors and, hey, who knows? But I would certainly want to ask a few questions.’ – Bill Keller

‘I can’t vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.’ – Jack Abramoff

‘If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.’ – Ken Livingstone

‘No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘I do vote but I don’t think that any political party represents my point of view.’ – Rupert Sheldrake

‘To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.’ – John Lewis

‘I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists – that ex-felons cannot vote.’ – Two Chainz

‘As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn’t have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn’t matter.’ – Two Chainz

‘When politics is interesting, people go vote.’ – Jacques Parizeau

‘The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.’ – James Hansen

‘Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.’ – Arlie Russell Hochschild

‘It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.’ – Paul Broun

‘The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I’ve voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.’ – Robert Winston

‘Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.’ – Juan Williams

‘In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women’s vote to John McCain’s 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.’ – Juan Williams

‘I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.’ – Milos Zeman

‘The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.’ – P. Chidambaram

‘I vote Labour and can’t begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.’ – Paloma Faith

‘I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to – they like commercial music.’ – Al Walser

‘People say, ‘If you don’t vote, then you don’t have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do – so even if I don’t vote, I still have the right to speak out.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘I pay my taxes, but I’ve never voted and I never will vote as long as the system works the way it does. Even when Obama was running, I wanted to see a woman run! I’d rather see a woman in the White House as opposed to Obama.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it’s easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn’t earn the right to vote for another eight years.’ – Anna Maria Chavez

‘No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!’ – Steven Weber

‘The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That’s just idiotic, right? That’s like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!’ – Steven Weber

‘It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: ‘Look, I haven’t given this election a minute’s thought, and it’s just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.’ Indeed, it’s not just sound and honest – it’s the ethically responsible thing to do.’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to ‘vote as you shot’ kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat – Grover Cleveland – won the White House.’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It’s a huge vote of confidence.’ – Robert Jarvik

‘If he’d been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ deal – $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator’s vote – in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.’ – Joe Klein

‘What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we’d have what you’d call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.’ – Olympia Snowe

‘A chief justice’s authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.’ – John Roberts

‘Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.’ – James Surowiecki

‘My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I’m told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don’t vote.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.’ – Stacy Schiff

‘I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don’t vote for men who yell.’ – Gail Collins

‘I’m a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.’ – Blake Mycoskie

‘I’ve been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I’ve collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.’ – J. R. Moehringer

‘To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.’ – Rand Paul

‘It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst

‘What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.’ – Martin Heinrich

‘Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill – on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.’ – Adam Hasner

‘Filmmaking is a real democracy – it’s up to the audience to vote with their tickets.’ – Dean Devlin

‘I’m responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven’t.’ – Sam Kinison

‘If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in – then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘I’d earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.’ – Brian Wilson

‘If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.’ – Gordon Bethune

‘If you ask the fish whether they’d rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d vote for another blowout.’ – Carl Safina

‘I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.’ – Bob Menendez

‘The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.’ – Eugene Jarecki

‘The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘If you care about women’s rights, you can’t not vote.’ – Moby

‘If someone is cynical and doesn’t vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.’ – Moby

‘It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.’ – Moby

‘It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds.’ – Ross Kemp

‘Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.’ – Steven Pinker

‘Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.’ – Steven Pinker

‘The kids get a vote. That’s very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.’ – Joe Perry

‘We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We have to vote climate change deniers and people who will create subsidies for the fossil fuel industry out of office. We have to protest when bad decisions are being made about fracking or tar sands.’ – Josh Fox

‘It’s time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven’t got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? ‘Failure is impossible.’ Failure is possible if women don’t vote.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.’ – Amity Shlaes

‘A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama’s promises.’ – Edward Snowden

‘The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people’s vote as they vote.’ – Avi Rubin

‘If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy – and important for the vote always to turn out ‘their way.” – Naomi Wolf

‘I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.’ – Woody Harrelson

”Moderate Republican’ is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren’t so conspicuous, the ‘New York Times’ would start referring to ‘nice Republicans’ and ‘mean Republicans” – Ann Coulter

‘Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it’s so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they’re going to vote.’ – Rick Santorum

‘Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.’ – Al Franken

‘I’m conservative. I was raised conservative, and that’s the way I will vote.’ – Kim Alexis

‘There’s a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it’s definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don’t think they should be.’ – Heather Brooke

‘So few people vote these days, and I think it’s partly because they don’t feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.’ – Jennifer Pahlka

‘The American people’s vote can’t be bought.’ – Michele Bachmann

‘I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.’ – Jack Whitehall

‘In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.’ – Joe Lhota

‘I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I’m paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see who’s funniest, with everyone treated equally.’ – Doug Stanhope

‘I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.’ – Nas

‘I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for ‘Legally Blonde,’ I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I’m a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.’ – Sheridan Smith

‘I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate – me – who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I’m the only one – I don’t care who gets in – who has that record.’ – Christine Quinn

‘My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.’ – Bob Gunton

‘When I see my own people going through the tough times, it’s a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else’s decision to get out here and vote.’ – Bow Wow

‘I’d rather support the issues I truly believe in than give my vote to parties that court votes at the time of the election. I like to think that my vote strengthens the green foundation stone.’ – Annie Lennox

‘Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can’t begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.’ – Andrew Young

‘When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate’s willingness and ability to protect Israel’s security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘There are consequences if you stand up for what you believe. Heck, you might – you might lose your sponsors if you’re a talk show host; or if you’re running for office, you know, people not give to you or people might not vote for you.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don’t have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.’ – Maiwenn

‘We have new rules that give shareholders the ability to vote on executive compensation. We have new rules for asset-backed securities. We have new rules around credit rating agencies.’ – Mary Schapiro

‘I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn’t vote for him in ’96. I didn’t vote for Gore in 2000.’ – Michael Moore

‘Sometimes it’s important to vote – you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.’ – Michael Moore

‘I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early ’70s. I ran for the Board of Education.’ – Michael Moore

‘In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can’t vote for individual candidates.’ – Michael Moore

‘I tend to vote Republican, but I don’t like the hardcore views on either side, and I’m not in bed with anybody.’ – Kid Rock

‘When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn’t respect human rights, don’t vote for that person.’ – Shirin Ebadi

‘I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. ‘Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.” – Jesse Ventura

‘Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don’t like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It’s like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I’m appalled, but that’s not to say they’re not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.’ – Jo Brand

‘I’ve got friends who didn’t vote. I want to smack them upside the head.’ – Kid Rock

‘People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government’s job, when it’s really the individual’s job.’ – Penn Jillette

‘We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.’ – Douglas Rushkoff

‘The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.’ – Neal Boortz

‘At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I’ m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.’ – Tony Benn

‘Most people define themselves by what they do – ‘I’m a musician.’ Then one day it occurred to me that I’m only a musician when I’m playing music – or writing music, or talking about music. I don’t do that 24 hours a day. I’m also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen – I mean, when I go to vote, I’m not thinking of myself as ‘a musician.” – Herbie Hancock

‘To my wife, I’m not Herbie Hancock the musician. I’m her husband. When I’m talking to a neighbor, I’m a neighbor. When I vote, I’m a citizen.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don’t vote. They often don’t elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they’re not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can ‘pray away the gay;’ I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it’s okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.’ – Sophia Bush

‘Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can’t vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.’ – James Dobson

‘Here’s why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He’s pro-abortion. He’s never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He’s called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He’s in favor of open borders.’ – James Dobson

‘My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven’t voted. I’m not the type of person who says, ‘I’m never going to vote.’ I think it’s clear to me that our system has failed us.’ – Talib Kweli

‘I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.’ – Josh Homme

‘Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.’ – James Bovard

‘I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken’s vote.’ – Joan Rivers

‘People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don’t vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.’ – Frank Carson

‘I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.’ – Ben Stein

‘I really encourage people to travel so we can see how the rest of the world views our country. That’s really important. Secondly, as artists, activists, and citizens who vote, we have to begin to vote from our heart.’ – Michael Franti

‘Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.’ – Oleg Cassini

‘It’s heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.’ – Hill Harper

‘All we have is our vote. But it’s powerful.’ – Adam McKay

‘People who say that there’s a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.’ – Grover Norquist

‘Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that’s locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It’s a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children’s children.’ – Sheherazade Goldsmith

‘In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment – or a few – where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: ‘Vote for me ’cause I’m one of you. It’s the other guy who’s out of touch.” – John Ridley

‘Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.’ – Monica Johnson

‘With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.’ – Monica Johnson

‘I did vote Obama. But I’ve never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed – ‘assault votes,’ for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘There are a number of Americans who shouldn’t vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I’d like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that’s fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.’ – James Langevin

‘The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn’t one of them.’ – Chellie Pingree

‘Whether it’s threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.’ – Patrick Murphy

‘My dad’s a Republican. My dad’s my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad’s Republican, so that’s what I decided to register as.’ – Patrick Murphy

‘There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.’ – Keith Ellison

‘When you’re a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they’re not going to vote for you.’ – Keith Ellison

‘I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.’ – Alice Walker

‘In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.’ – Alice Walker

‘When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‘democratic’ right to vote.’ – Alice Walker

‘Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.’ – Shashi Tharoor

‘The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don’t attend our schools, get married and have children. They don’t vote in our elections.’ – Hank Johnson

‘The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.’ – Hank Johnson

‘Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let’s not try to dominate one another. Let’s be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.’ – Eddi Reader

‘I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.’ – Rory Stewart

‘Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.’ – Rory Stewart

‘What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small ‘l’ but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That’s more or less the empty set.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one’s vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders’ meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.’ – F. W. de Klerk

‘Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.’ – Bill McKibben

‘I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.’ – Eazy-E

‘I am sick and tired of folks that are doing everything they can to try to get a bad bill going, and then they vote against it when the bad bill’s got the momentum to go through. We should be doing everything, using every tool in our toolbox, to stop bad legislation from happening.’ – Matt Salmon

‘I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who’ve broken the law. I would support – after we have developed a secure border – a mechanism for allowing those folks to work here in America… Everything that we should do should be based on good, sound policy and what’s right for America.’ – Matt Salmon

‘I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘I think TARP was the most defining vote since I’ve been in Congress. It was wrong. You don’t nationalize private – it was wrong. It desensitized people to what $700 billion was, which opened the door for a $900 million stimulus, for Obamacare, for all these things. It was wrong. It broke my heart.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘I’m a big believer if you want to change people’s minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you’ve got to first get their attention.’ – Aaron Schock

‘I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.’ – Eleanor Catton

‘It’s my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.’ – Stacey Dash

‘Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett’s Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.’ – Paul Watson

‘At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave,’ you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn’t share, but it’s not like I’m a fascist or a racist. There’s nothing like that in my history.’ – Gary Oldman

‘I don’t speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.’ – Theodore Bikel

‘There’s an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.’ – Joe Kennedy III

‘In my book, ‘Let Patients Help,’ one chapter is titled ‘Let patients vote on what’s worth the cost.’ That’s sensible, right? In other industries, consumer preference is a key determinant in prices.’ – Dave deBronkart

‘I didn’t vote for Bush, and I’m not happy particularly that he’s president. But I will say I’m impressed that he didn’t start bombing Afghanistan the day after Sept. 11. The more time that passes without him bombing Afghanistan, the more I respect him.’ – William T. Vollmann

‘Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.’ – Jackie Speier

‘In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.’ – Jackie Speier

‘A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.’ – Dave Brat

‘The good news is dollars don’t vote, people do.’ – Dave Brat

‘Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast – whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation’s education system.’ – Mark Takano

‘As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don’t be surprised when the outcome doesn’t serve your interests; you’ve never done anything to push things in the right direction.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘I’d vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I’m from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.’ – Matt Damon

‘Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.’ – Jill Lepore

‘If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.’ – Jill Lepore

‘People aren’t necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold – that is, when a voter knows you’re willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives – then that’s most of what you need to get their vote. It’s not your voting record.’ – John Yarmuth

‘If there’s amnesty leading to citizenship, I’m going to vote against it again.’ – Frank Wolf

‘I don’t think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it’s much more than that. It’s not just a black man. It’s not just a feel-good vote. It’s the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.’ – Aunjanue Ellis

‘Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.’ – David Rakoff

‘I know that at literary festivals I’m speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I’d like them to vote.’ – Elliot Perlman

‘Working people vote!’ – Timothy Noah

‘Vote Republican if you like, but don’t kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.’ – Timothy Noah

‘The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.’ – Timothy Noah

‘I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we’re always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.’ – Terri Sewell

‘Your vote can’t be separated from your faith.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn’t win, but we got Prince and Princess.’ – Tom Lenk

‘What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that’s exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘When you’re a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It’s not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.’ – Dan Jenkins

‘A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.’ – Alex Berenson

‘I don’t play politics; I don’t do that. I think there’s too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it’s our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.’ – Marie Osmond

‘Since I joined Congress, I’ve been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plus-page bills without ample time to read or review what was in the final legislation. It’s no wonder Congress doesn’t enact good policy.’ – Erik Paulsen

‘I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.’ – Victor Ponta

‘I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don’t vote for me, don’t expect anything.’ – Yahya Jammeh

‘U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘The supermarket chain Whole Foods has quite a radical employee empowerment program, where employees get to decide whether another employee can work in their team or not. If they think this person’s a slacker, doesn’t have good ideas, they can vote and say, no, we don’t want this person to be working with us on the vegetable aisle.’ – Tim Harford

‘My view of the filibuster is either you’ve got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of legislation.’ – Angus King

‘I’ve come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It’s somebody that they can’t put in a box and say, ‘Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.” – Angus King

‘Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes these problems seem very far away from us here in the United States. But let’s remember that even into the 20th century, an American woman could not own property or vote in national elections.’ – Tina Brown

‘Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.’ – Tina Brown

‘I don’t like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don’t want my vote taken for granted.’ – Rob Lowe

‘Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they’re disconnected from the people they serve, and I don’t think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won’t vote for me, would accuse me of that.’ – Lamar Alexander

‘What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don’t remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.’ – Gale Sayers

‘I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.’ – Wesley Clark

‘I’ve never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I’m also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.’ – Allen Covert

‘I don’t – you know, I’m very disillusioned with our political system. If we don’t wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are – we’re doomed.’ – Cindy Sheehan

‘I’m not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.’ – Cindy Sheehan

‘I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United States citizens both at home and abroad.’ – Bradley Byrne

‘By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.’ – David Blunkett

‘Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, ‘Oh, I’m not gonna vote,’ I just wanna tear their heart out.’ – Judy Gold

‘I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn’t based on grades; that was the popular vote.’ – Thomas Middleditch

‘I learned to be far more skeptical of what I’m told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call ‘boots on the ground.” – Hillary Clinton

‘The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.’ – Ted Cruz

‘After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.’ – Claire McCaskill

‘It is up to us to change laws on the books like ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.’ – Al Sharpton

‘If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.’ – Al Sharpton

‘All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.’ – Al Sharpton

‘You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can’t fulfill your dreams.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘There’s an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you’re this, or you’re absolutely a conservative, and those just aren’t all true.’ – Corbin Bernsen

‘I would love to say to all Americans: ‘Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You’re going to watch one from each candidate, and then you’re going to vote!” – Mitt Romney

‘Were it my choice, I would not vote for Russia to hold the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics. But it’s not my choice.’ – Mitt Romney

‘The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote – happen to be working class people who are desperate to not only achieve the American dream but leave their kids better off than themselves.’ – Marco Rubio

‘I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international profile even further, with lots of benefits for Scottish arts and culture.’ – Ken Stott

‘If you’re blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn’t just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.’ – John Thune

‘On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.’ – Jim Webb

‘If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘Look at liberty’s greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms – often putting their lives on the line – called themselves liberals.’ – Rick Perlstein

‘Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama’s reelection.’ – Rick Perlstein

‘As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.’ – Paul Broun

‘A majority of Americans want redemption for racism – for our terrible, destructive racist past – and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘There’s a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘I don’t think anyone went the polls and said, ‘I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.” – Elizabeth Warren

‘We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.’ – David Sze

‘The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.’ – Robert Webb

‘At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.’ – John Mackey

‘There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you’d think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote – regardless of age, race, or income level – is one of them.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There’s too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.’ – Mimi Kennedy

‘I never miss a vote; I think that’s the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular – your vote is your one weapon.’ – Imelda May

‘I would argue that you’re only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.’ – Rand Paul

‘The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state.’ – Tom Golisano

‘If we go by the National Popular Vote, we’ll get more people voting.’ – Tom Golisano

‘A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can’t totally believe they really want that.’ – Tom Golisano

‘I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven’t seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.’ – Rivers Cuomo

‘The so-called ‘Employee Free Choice Act’ envisions a world where workers would be denied privacy and forced to vote in an atmosphere of intimidation.’ – Mike Pence

‘I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.’ – Goodluck Jonathan

‘All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and – let no one be in doubt – we will.’ – Goodluck Jonathan

‘In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘If a team needs new facilities, and they’ve been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it’s a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.’ – Bob McNair

‘It doesn’t take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.’ – Jason Chaffetz

‘If we’re going to win this battle over fiscal responsibility, we need more of the people who vote right and fewer of those whose seniority is their only selling point.’ – Jason Chaffetz

‘During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.’ – Charles Kennedy

‘It is Republicans that have led the fight for women’s equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.’ – Marsha Blackburn

‘The thing that we tell – that I tell – members is, ‘Vote your district. Vote your conscience; just don’t surprise us.” – Kevin McCarthy

‘I’m a Canadian who can’t vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both – and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn’t have a national healthcare program for children, even though it’s a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down – I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.’ – Elijah Parish Lovejoy

‘I don’t vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I’m not that person. I’m painting pictures.’ – Gary Hume

‘There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.’ – Roger Altman

‘Countless black citizens in the South couldn’t vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.’ – John Doar

‘I’m not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.’ – John Doar

‘Many people supported the Conservatives because of David Cameron, while many people supported Labour despite Ed Miliband. Deteriorating opinions of Cameron will therefore have a bigger impact on the Conservatives’ vote share than worsening views of Miliband would have on Labour’s.’ – Michael Ashcroft

‘It’s sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don’t believe they belong in politics.’ – Diane Hendricks

‘Remember, many Republicans didn’t vote for Mitt Romney. He didn’t inspire people.’ – Donald Trump

‘The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.’ – Roland Martin

‘If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.’ – Roland Martin

‘We can change the direction of the country with our vote.’ – Roland Martin

‘My husband was adopted, and we had difficulty having both of my children, so we know the gift that life is. We do believe marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s how you stand on that kind of thing or how you vote that really makes a difference.’ – Nikki Haley

‘It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.’ – John C. Calhoun

‘I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.’ – John C. Calhoun

‘It’s ironic, isn’t it, that one day you’re one of the most conservative members, and then some individual gets mad at you, and they decide to throw millions of dollars against you because you didn’t vote exactly the way they want every day.’ – James Lankford

‘The right to vote is one of our nation’s most important civil rights.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read – I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?’ – Wayne Rogers

‘I cast my first vote on my father’s lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.’ – Christopher Buckley

‘Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can’t afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.’ – Lionel Sosa

‘For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I’ve never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn’t vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation’s professed ideals in that Declaration.’ – Marvin Ammori

”Bush v. Gore’ gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.’ – Marvin Ammori

‘A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.’ – Eileen Myles

‘The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn’t win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy – the one who wanted peace.’ – Eileen Myles

‘I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently… the painting rebels and goes fascist on me.’ – Peter Saul

‘It’s interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It’s a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It’s fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won’t vote for war.’ – Sarah Gavron

‘Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don’t have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.’ – Sarah Gavron

”Suffragette’ is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.’ – Sarah Gavron

‘Remember to use your vote. Remember to speak out and feel empowered.’ – Sarah Gavron

‘It’s the 21st century. It’s untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn’t vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.’ – Kate Williams

‘I really believe that anybody on the Left or the Right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they’re stretching Scripture.’ – Jerry Falwell, Jr.

‘If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain’s seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.’ – Boris Johnson

‘Whether you either passionately think we should stay in, or on balance think we should stay in, or on a balance of risks think we should stay in – for heaven’s sake get out and vote in, because you might wake up and find out you’re out.’ – David Cameron

‘Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today’s rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.’ – Donald Trump

‘The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I think Britain can be one of the great success stories of the 21st century – we’ve got the talent, the drive, the connections around the world. But if we vote to Leave, then we lose control. We lose control of our economy, and if you lose control of your economy you lose control of everything. That’s not a price worth paying.’ – George Osborne

‘The people who are supporting Herman Cain are the type of people that show up and vote in the primary.’ – Corey Lewandowski

‘When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.’ – John Barrasso

‘Donald Trump is kind of a riverboat gamble. He won the Illinois primary; in this case, we have seen the Republican vote up and the Democratic vote down, so it looks like it’s a net benefit.’ – Mark Kirk

‘Sharpton and Jackson are ‘race brokers.’ Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. ‘Black enough’ is just another tool in the bamboozler’s toolbox.’ – Angela McGlowan

‘I wrote ‘Bamboozled’ to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.’ – Angela McGlowan

‘People vote based on emotion. Period.’ – Scott Adams

‘I will not vote for – and no senator should vote for – anyone who will not render justice impartially.’ – Jeff Sessions

‘I couldn’t vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country – the senior person – and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.’ – Jeff Sessions

‘My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘People have choices. They are going to vote with their feet.’ – Tom Perez

‘My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great – people say, ‘Oh, I don’t want this or that’ – but at the end of the day, tweeting isn’t a ballot. Just saying that you don’t like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.’ – Zendaya

‘I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.’ – Peter Hook

‘When I first ran for governor, the political class and party leaders opposed me with great vigor, and some even said if I won the primary they would never vote for me. But the voters had other ideas, and they are the only ones who count.’ – Rick Scott

‘The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.’ – Rick Scott

‘We have over 13 million people who supported my candidacy. And I have no doubt that there are some of those people who will not vote for Hillary Clinton.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘You can always find a reason to say no. It’s the easiest vote. It’s also not exactly a red badge of courage.’ – John Cornyn

‘I just think the mood of the country is now that people don’t necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it’s the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I’ll respect their choice.’ – John Cornyn

‘I am delighted to accept the chairmanship of Vote Leave, to help ensure that the organisation is fully prepared for the start of the referendum campaign.’ – Nigel Lawson

‘I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.’ – Gordon Brown

‘You can’t just vote for yourself. All the time, you’re thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?’ – Gordon Brown

‘Elections have consequences. So many people want to complain, but they don’t want to vote. We can talk about Hillary Clinton. We can celebrate her; we can support her, but if we don’t come out and vote for her, for shame.’ – Cory Booker

‘I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.’ – Mark Rutte

‘Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it’s a vote about you as a whole human being.’ – Richard Ben Cramer

‘I don’t know what’s going to happen specifically on votes on Obamacare. I suspect we’ll vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it’s a bad policy, and we think it’s hurting our constituents, and we think health care cost should be going down, not up.’ – Rob Portman

‘I’m George Takei, and I’m straight… up asking you to vote.’ – George Takei

‘I’m especially concerned about the future of this country, because I’m concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.’ – George Takei

‘Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai Stevenson, and he took me to the Stevenson for President headquarters, and he volunteered me. That was my introduction to electoral politics, which was exciting and fun and thrilling and very theatrical.’ – George Takei

‘Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘If there is a ‘Leave’ vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘I’m the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘Our MPs will take decisions on how they’re voting on a day-to-day basis. But I’m the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘I’ll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.’ – Nicola Sturgeon

‘If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.’ – Martin McGuinness