Vote Quotes
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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
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Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
Ed Case
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
Eric Lynn Wright
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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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
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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
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
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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
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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
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
Jackie Speier
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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
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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
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Dan Maffei
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
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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
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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
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
Adam McKay