292 Quotes on Vote

• 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.

  Author: David Zucker

• 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.

  Author: Chuck Zito

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

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.

  Author: Khaleda Zia

• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• 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.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• 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.

  Author: Connie Willis

• I think it's important to vote.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

  Author: Lynn Westmoreland

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

  Author: Rebecca West

• The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• 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.

  Author: Ida Wells

• 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.

  Author: Bob Weir

• I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

  Author: Harold Washington

• 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.

  Author: Mary Ward

• 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.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• 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.

  Author: Henry Villard

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

  Author: Gore Vidal

• 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.

  Author: Gore Vidal

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

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• 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.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.

  Author: Jonathan Turley

• 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.

  Author: Dalton Trumbo

• Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

  Author: Harry Truman

• 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.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• 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.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• 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.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• 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?

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• 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.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

  Author: Andrew Sullivan

• 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.

  Author: Lucy Stone

• 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.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• 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.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• 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.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

  Author: Jerry Springer

• 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.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

  Author: 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• 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.

  Author: Tony Snow

• Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

  Author: George Smathers

• 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.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

  Author: William Simon

• But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

  Author: Clare Short

• Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

  Author: George Shaw

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

  Author: Al Sharpton

• 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.

  Author: Jay Sekulow

• 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.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• 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.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• 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.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• 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.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• 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.

  Author: Dick Schaap

• People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• 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.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• 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.

  Author: Arundhati Roy

• 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.

  Author: Karl Rove

• A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• 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.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• 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.

  Author: Will Rogers

• 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.

  Author: James Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Jackie Robinson

• I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

  Author: Pat Robertson

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

  Author: 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.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• 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.

  Author: Janet Reno

• 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.

  Author: Lynn Redgrave

• I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

  Author: Jeanette Rankin

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  Author: Dan Quayle

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

  Author: Dan Quayle

• 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.

  Author: Dennis Prager

• They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

  Author: Charles Phillips

• 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.

  Author: Madeleine Peyroux

• 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.

  Author: Nancy Pelosi

• 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.

  Author: Ron Paul

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

  Author: Alice Paul

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

  Author: Alice Paul

• 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?

  Author: Bill Pascrell

• When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• 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.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

  Author: Edna O'Brien

• 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.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• 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.

  Author: Barack Obama

• 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.

  Author: Barack Obama

• 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.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

• A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

  Author: Lyn Nofziger

• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.

  Author: Ben Nelson

• 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.

  Author: John Negroponte

• 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.

  Author: David Neeleman

• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  Author: George Nathan

• Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• 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.

  Author: Lewis Mumford

• 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.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• 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.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• 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.

  Author: Hosni Mubarak

• A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

  Author: Yoshiro Mori

• 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.

  Author: Joe Morgan

• The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.

  Author: Charles Moore

• 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.

  Author: Mario Monti

• Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.

  Author: Eleanor Mondale

• 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.

  Author: Zell Miller

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  Author: Laura Miller

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

• 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.

  Author: George Michael

• 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.

  Author: Robert Menendez

• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  Author: H. Mencken

• 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.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• 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.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• 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.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• 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.

  Author: John McHugh

• 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.

  Author: John McHugh

• The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

  Author: Scott McClellan

• 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.

  Author: Claire McCaskill

• Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

  Author: Francis Maude

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Eric Massa

• I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are important.

  Author: Mel Martinez

• I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

  Author: Mel Martinez

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

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

  Author: Thomas Mann

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

  Author: Clare Luce

• 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.

  Author: LaToya London

• 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.

  Author: David Lloyd

• 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.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

  Author: Bernard Levin

• If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

  Author: Jay Leno

• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  Author: Tanith Lee

• I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.

  Author: Barbara Lee

• I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• 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.

  Author: Nick Lampson

• To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

  Author: Louis L'Amour

• 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.

  Author: Dennis Kucinich

• 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.

  Author: Dennis Kucinich

• It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

  Author: Lenny Kravitz

• 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.

  Author: Peter Krause

• I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

  Author: Herb Kohl

• They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

  Author: Craig Kilborn

• So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

  Author: Imran Khan

• 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.

  Author: Ayatollah Khamenei

• 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.

  Author: Zalmay Khalilzad

• 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.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  Author: Joseph Kennedy

• 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.

  Author: John Kennedy

• 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.

  Author: John Kennedy

• 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.

  Author: Toby Keith

• 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.

  Author: Hamid Karzai

• 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.

  Author: Hamilton Jordan

• 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.

  Author: Stephanie Jones

• Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

  Author: Stephanie Jones

• 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!

  Author: Mother Jones

• 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.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• 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.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• A man without a vote is man without protection.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

  Author: Eddie Johnson

• 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.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Jarvis

• I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

  Author: Thomas Jarvis

• 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.

  Author: Molly Ivins

• 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.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• 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.

  Author: Johnny Isakson

• 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.

  Author: Patricia Ireland

• 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.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

  Author: Robert Hunter

• We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

  Author: Kin Hubbard

• You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

  Author: Russel Honore

• 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.

  Author: James Hoffa

• Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.

  Author: Betty Hill

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

  Author: Betty Hill

• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

  Author: Gilbert Highet

• 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.

  Author: Charlton Heston

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

  Author: O. Henry

• To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

  Author: Rutherford Hayes

• 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.

  Author: Paul Harvey

• Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

  Author: Emmylou Harris

• 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.

  Author: Valerie Harper

• Mobilize people to vote and to re-elect Clinton as the only way to defeat.

  Author: Gus Hall

• If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

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

  Author: Al Gore

• 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?

  Author: Barry Goldwater

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

  Author: Whoopi Goldberg

• 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.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

  Author: George Galloway

• Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

  Author: David Frost

• Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

  Author: Pim Fortuyn

• You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

  Author: Joschka Fischer

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  Author: W. Fields

• I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

  Author: W. Fields

• If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• 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.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• 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.

  Author: Paul Farmer

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Falwell

• 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.

  Author: Oriana Fallaci

• 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.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• Our only hope is to control the vote.

  Author: Medgar Evers

• People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

  Author: Susan Estrich

• I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

  Author: John Edwards

• 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.

  Author: John Edwards

• 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.

  Author: Marian Edelman

• 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.

  Author: Esther Dyson

• As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

  Author: Jennifer Dunn

• I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

  Author: Byron Dorgan

• Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

  Author: John Dingell

• I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

  Author: James Denton

• 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.

  Author: Eugene Debs

• 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.

  Author: Howard Dean

• 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.

  Author: Stockwell Day

• 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.

  Author: Stockwell Day

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

  Author: Judy Davis

• I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

  Author: Geena Davis

• 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.

  Author: Ron Davies

• Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

  Author: Chris Daughtry

• 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.

  Author: William Daley

• I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

  Author: John Culberson

• Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

  Author: David Cross

• 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.

  Author: Larry Craig

• We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

  Author: Ann Coulter

• 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.

  Author: John Cornyn

• If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  Author: Pete Coors

• 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.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• 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.

  Author: Alice Cooper

• 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.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

• 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.

  Author: Eleanor Clift

• 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?

  Author: Cher

• 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.

  Author: Dick Cheney

• 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.

  Author: Dick Cheney

• 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.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

  Author: Brad Carson

• 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.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

  Author: Vivian Campbell

• 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.

  Author: Anne Campbell

• 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.

  Author: Peter Camejo

• Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

  Author: Steven Calabresi

• For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

  Author: George Byron

• Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

  Author: Robert Byrne

• 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.

  Author: Robert Byrd

• It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

  Author: Geezer Butler

• 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.

  Author: Laura Bush

• I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.

  Author: Gary Burghoff

• 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.

  Author: Charles Bukowski

• Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

  Author: Aaron Brown

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

  Author: David Brower

• As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

  Author: Arthur Brooks

• 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.

  Author: Carol Braun

• Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

  Author: Carol Braun

• 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.

  Author: Hjalmar Branting

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• 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.

  Author: Julian Bond

• 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.

  Author: Brian Boitano

• Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

  Author: John Boehner

• 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.

  Author: Sherwood Boehlert

• 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.

  Author: Joan Blades

• 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.

  Author: Kenneth Blackwell

• 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.

  Author: Bob Black

• 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.

  Author: Bill Bixby

• 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.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• 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?

  Author: Jello Biafra

• 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.

  Author: Benazir Bhutto

• 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.

  Author: Michael Bennett

• The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

  Author: Lord Beaverbrook

• 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.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Birch Bayh

• I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call.

  Author: Max Baucus

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

  Author: Bernard Baruch

• 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.

  Author: Sharron Angle

• 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.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Todd Akin

• 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.

  Author: Ben Affleck

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

  Author: Aeschylus

• Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  Author: John Adams

• Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

  Author: Franklin Adams

• No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

  Author: Gary Ackerman

• 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.

  Author: Casey Abrams

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