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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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry
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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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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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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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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
Adam Carolla
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
Eric Lynn Wright
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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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If you don't vote, you don't count.
Nancy Pelosi
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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
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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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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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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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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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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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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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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
Naomi Klein
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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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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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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. 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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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
Rand Paul
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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'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