Vote Quotes
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I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
Harold Washington
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
Barbara Mikulski
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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
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A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
William Francis Buckley
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I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.
Mike Thompson
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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
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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
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Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
Ahmed Chalabi
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Douglas Jerrold
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Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.
Alan Young
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After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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How we vote now will be determined by whether meaningful action can occur on some of the areas that we outlined a few weeks ago.
Jack Layton
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Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
Gary North
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
Gary Ackerman
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Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.
Carles Puigdemont
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
Walter Cronkite
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham Sumner
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
Agnes Varda
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Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.
Joseph Stalin
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Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.
Drew Carey
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In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.
Harper Reed
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Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.
Louie Gohmert
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We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted and don't trust the government.
Angela Alioto
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I think it's incredibly important to vote because politics is for the people, and we shouldn't leave it just to the parties because then we're in some kind of helpless society where you have no say in anything and in things that are going to affect you. Government was formed to represent the people, but if you don't vote, then you're not being represented.
Ellie Rowsell