Top 100 A Vote Quotes
#1. Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.
Chuck Wendig
#2. A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
Jesse Ventura
#3. A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
Yoshiro Mori
#4. Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#5. things to the crew and proceed with a vote." "And then it'll be time to..." Pellegrini interrupted. "To what?" "To pray.
J.A. Hawkings
#6. The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
Charles J. Hitch
#7. I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.
Michael Gove
#8. I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.
Aunjanue Ellis
#9. All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
John Podhoretz
#10. 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.
Dick Schaap
#11. Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
Wess Stafford
#12. Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
Mark Twain
#13. I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#14. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H.L. Mencken
#15. Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there's a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins.
Craig Ferguson
#16. This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world. A vote is a voice. I think you underestimate yourself, Queenie. This is your fight, same as it is mine.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#17. Only in psychiatry is the existence of physical disease determined by APA presidential proclamations, by committee decisions, and even, by a vote of the members of APA, not to mention the courts.
Peter Breggin
#18. Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine's natural healthiness seemed suspect, like a vote for Reagan.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#20. It is not always that the majority are right in a vote of a certain event. If that certain event was with no doubt acceptable to human nature then the minority would not exist.
Nathanael Kanyinga
#21. Every dollar you spend . . . or don't spend . . . is a vote you cast for the world you want.
L.N. Smith
#22. I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
Rory Stewart
#23. The bulk of the crowd looked like professors and their wives from Amherst. One of the problems, according to a bushy young radical-talking non-student from Boston, was that you had to pay a "registration fee" of two dollars before you got a vote.
Hunter S. Thompson
#24. If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.
Bob McNair
#25. I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.
Henry Hyde
#26. A vote transfers power from the electorate to a politician leaving a voter powerless. A vote deprives a voter to represent himself/herself in parliament and a voter is banned from participating in the proceedings of parliament.
David Ssembajjo
#27. Wait. Don't we even get a say in this?" James is supposed to be a macho, baseball player. Why is he such a whiny douche? "What? You want us to take a vote?" That
Roxas James
#29. Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
Hugh Laurie
#30. A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.
Dave Matthews
#31. Let's put it to a vote. Shall the ballots be open or secret?"
"We don't need Soviet-style voting," Charushnikov said, offended. "Let's vote the honest way, the European way: secret ballots.
Ilya Ilf
#32. Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.
Roger E. Olson
#33. There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.
Bill Maher
#34. 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.
David Zucker
#35. Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
John Boehner
#36. We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more important than the democracy it declares.
G.K. Chesterton
#37. As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.
Tony Evans
#38. 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.
Michael Bennett
#39. At the end of the day, he was going to find himself either dead or married, and he wasn't quite prepared to let the Bridgerton brothers take the matter to a vote. And
Julia Quinn
#40. Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
Anna Lappe
#41. If you're looking for a unique solution, the last thing you should do is ask for a vote.
Youngme Moon
#42. I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
Barbara Lee
#43. I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
Imelda May
#44. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.
Dave Brat
#45. The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.
Clay Shirky
#46. I would absolutely commit to holding a vote on the hunting ban - I think it is not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever.
Andrea Leadsom
#47. Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
#48. I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.
Lucas Papademos
#49. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers
Rob Portman
#50. I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.
Saxby Chambliss
#51. We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.
Barack Obama
#52. If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
Jill Lepore
#53. Every man with a vote was considered a foe to woman suffrage unless he was prepared to be actively a friend.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#54. A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
Gloria Steinem
#55. The challenge, then, is to make men want sex that's less like a battle and more like an unusually satisfying UN meeting, where everybody understands the proceedings and gets a vote.
Anonymous
#56. The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
Joe Perry
#57. If I had to think it over for weeks and take a vote on it, I'd not bomb anyone.
Mike Bove
#58. Anyone have a pen and paper?"
There was a moment of stillness as the four of us looked around, totally clueless. The only things any of us ever wrote with were our phones. And there was no way this was going to be a vote via group text.
Goldy Moldavsky
#59. A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote.
William Landay
#60. Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
G.K. Chesterton
#61. Cordelia shook her head helplessly. "You would. A vote. Right." She buried her face in her hands a moment, and sobbed a laugh. "Why?" she asked through her fingers.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#62. Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law.
Chris Christie
#63. My job was always to pull a vote over from somebody who was likely to be at least at the outset disinclined to agree with me on some things or at least disinclined to agree with the policy that I was defending.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#64. Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.
Barack Obama
#65. There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.
Barack Obama
#66. You could move to Europe."
"You know, I've actually been considering that lately."
Kai laughed again, the warmth returning to the sound. "If that's not a vote of confidence, I don't know what is.
Marissa Meyer
#67. A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
Eileen Myles
#68. (President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.
Carl T. Rowan
#69. If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban
#70. 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.
Eric Massa
#71. Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.
Ofir Drori
#72. When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
Ed Koch
#73. When I want to." He ran his finger over her lips. "You don't get a vote, honey.
Cherise Sinclair
#74. We'd summoned you out of ourselves, and you were not given a vote. If only for that reason, you deserved all the protection we could muster.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#75. The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
Warren Kole
#76. I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.
Huey Newton
#77. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
Giacomo Casanova
#78. The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.
Mark Twain
#79. If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
Brad Carson
#80. The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#81. You want it. I can see it in you." I gritted my teeth. "The part of me that wants it doesn't get a vote," I said.
Jim Butcher
#82. If there's a vote taken as to which aspect of God I treasure the most, I'd say laughing.
Art Hochberg
#83. It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
George Bernard Shaw
#84. 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.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#85. A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
#86. You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
William J. Clinton
#88. To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.
Herman Melville
#89. You don't give up on democracy every time you lose a vote, Ethel said crisply.
Ken Follett
#90. Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote - I'd have cast a brick.
John Brunner
#91. You will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.
Hillary Clinton
#92. See, whoever said I was an autocrat was clearly mistaken. I represented the height of representative democracy where everyone gets a vote. Mine just counted for more than all the other ones combined, when you read the final tally; that's all.
Luke Sky Wachter
#93. When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Ronald Reagan
#94. I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international profile even further, with lots of benefits for Scottish arts and culture.
Ken Stott
#95. The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
Thomas Paine
#96. Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
Frances Moore Lappe
#97. 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
#98. I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.
Tom Ridge
#99. It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.
Pope John Paul II
#100. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
Bill Keller
