My First Vote Quotes

#1. My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.

Barack Obama

#2. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Just won my first writing award, thanks to you. To all who took the time to vote for me in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading, many thanks.

Linda Heavner Gerald

#3. The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand ... And the power in hand is the vote.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#4. I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.

Bob Newhart

#5. When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

Susana Martinez

#6. I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're going to roll up our sleeves and work on things, and members of Congress are going to sacrifice our own budgets first.

Steve Stivers

#7. The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

Condoleezza Rice

#8. I support selecting as many candidates as early as possible for lots of reasons. First of all I think it is important that every voter - regardless of where they live in the country - should have the opportunity to vote Conservative should they wish.

Theresa May

#9. And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

Michelle Obama

#10. My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

Bob Gunton

#11. 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

#12. Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

Bill Bonner

#13. I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.

James Knowles III

#14. I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

Steve Daines

#15. First of all, citizens don't vote about laws. They vote on representatives. The representatives do the voting about laws.

J. Kraft Mitchell

#16. If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Ken Livingstone

#17. The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

Al Gore

#18. I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.

Tim Scott

#19. This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Craig Ferguson

#20. First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

Margaret Thatcher

#21. I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

George McGovern

#22. I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

Christopher Buckley