Vote Quotes

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

~ Joshua Lederberg

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

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

When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.

~ Louis B. Rosenberg

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

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

~ Susan B. Anthony

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

~ Louise Slaughter

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

~ Clare Boothe Luce

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

~ Kin Hubbard

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

~ Ambrose Bierce

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 vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

~ Tom Graves

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

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

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

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

~ John Boehner

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

~ Lord Byron

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

I believe that our vote is both a public duty and a sacred trust.

~ Gordon Brown

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

~ Robert Byrne

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

~ Bernard Baruch

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

~ W. C. Fields

I don't follow politics it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

~ Mario Balotelli

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.

~ Joseph P. Kennedy Iii

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

~ Gilbert Highet

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

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

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

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

~ Roland Martin

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

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

The only people that should vote should be legal.

~ Pam Bondi

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

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

~ James Bovard

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

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