Top 100 Politics Vote Quotes
#1. I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.
Marie Osmond
#2. When bad news sells, money politics buys.
Toba Beta
#3. Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
Thomas Sowell
#4. He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.
Jonathan Swift
#5. Most people hates politicians and politics itself:but always vote during election to elect a president. I am always tempted to ask who a politician is ?
Aboagye Williamson De-graft
#6. As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Molly Ivins
#7. The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.
Matt Damon
#8. And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don't know what it says, don't vote for it.
Kenneth Eade
#9. And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
Will Rogers
#10. If you vote for Barack Obama in 2012, you'll be doing exactly what the Republicans want you to do.
Michel Templet
#11. I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me ... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
David Crockett
#12. Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.
Narendra Modi
#13. If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!
Bill Clinton
#14. Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.
Jerry Rubin
#15. I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.
Eugene V. Debs
#17. In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.
Louise Mensch
#18. Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
Elayne Boosler
#19. If children could vote, Jesse Jackson would be our next president.
Fred Allen
#20. The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.
Helen Fielding
#21. I'm not interested in politics, or being a part of them. I definitely do my homework and make sure that I know what's going on, and I'm responsible enough to be able to vote for people that I respect. But other than that, I've never been a part of the political world.
Kate Mara
#22. Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.
Nancy Fox
#23. The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
Eugene Jarecki
#24. There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.
Donald Trump
#25. 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
#26. Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.
Peter Applebome
#27. Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
#28. The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly opposed the vote for women...
Betty Friedan
#29. Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
Frank Dane
#30. A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
Glenn Greenwald
#31. We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.
Jessie Daniel Ames
#32. Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road.
Tim Kreider
#33. My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#34. Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.
Steven Magee
#35. Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
Mark Twain
#36. In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce
#37. You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!
Charles M. Schulz
#38. Our politics have become paralyzed and sometimes poisonous. Instead of protecting Americans' fundamental right to vote, the Supreme Court has protected corporations' right to buy elections.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#39. Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
Warren Beatty
#40. Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.
Stephen Colbert
#41. What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Gilbert Highet
#42. There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Emma Goldman
#43. The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader
#45. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
#46. Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
Hugh Laurie
#47. Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.
Malcolm X
#48. I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen, and if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.
Colin Powell
#49. The top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.
Dick Morris
#50. If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
Ben Carson
#51. Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.
Henry Rollins
#52. Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
Germaine Greer
#53. Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
Rick Mercer
#54. Take it from me, every vote counts.
Al Gore
#55. Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain because you helped put him there. That's why I never vote, so I can later complain.
Sergio De La Pava
#56. If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
Bertrand Russell
#57. Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.
Gloria Steinem
#58. In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.
Ben Tolosa
#59. I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
Chelsea Clinton
#60. I went to my Congressman and he said quote quote, I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.
Eddie Cochran
#61. As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
#62. I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.
Rachel Sklar
#63. I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and vote. It doesn't matter; you can believe whatever you want to believe, but this is the time everybody should be paying a lot of attention.
Andrew McMahon
#64. Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams
#65. I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
Gail Collins
#66. You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.
Marshall Karp
#67. Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.
Celinda Lake
#68. By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.
David Blunkett
#69. I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#70. I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
Nas
#71. We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.
George C. Scott
#72. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.
Ben Tolosa
#73. The moment you vote, you are a citizen. But moment you make your vote public, you are a politician.
Ben Tolosa
#74. If it's concerning immigration, do something on immigration, put your concerns on the President's actions and I'll vote on them. I'm not going to play politics and start playing around with the Homeland Security, there's no pressure that's going to change where I am.
Joe Manchin
#75. - Why did blondes vote for Clinton?
- They didn't know how to read and thought she can make their life hilarious!
Bryanna Reid
#76. The middle class of America must pay some federal income taxes or this will no longer be America.
Frank Coyle
#77. There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.
Eddie Whitlock
#78. it's hard as hell to get politicians excited about what we do out here, or about what you do, kay."
"the problem is, the dead don't vote," i said.
"i've heard of cases where they did.
Patricia Cornwell
#79. It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.
Diane Hendricks
#80. Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.
Ron Paul
#81. I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.
Jessica McCann
#82. It is not only the unit vote for the Presidency we are talking about, but a whole solar system of governmental power. If it is proposed to change the balance of power of one of the elements of the solar system, it is necessary to consider the others.
John F. Kennedy
#83. The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Arundhati Roy
#84. If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.
Brian Redman
#85. We'd all like t'vote fer th'best man, but he's never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
#86. Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.
Annie Leonard
#87. Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.
Satish Kumar
#88. Till the end of my life, I shall never canvas for a vote. I shall not even expect a word of praise from any quarter.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#89. People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#90. I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.
Jeremy Corbyn
#91. U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#92. If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.
Calvin Coolidge
#93. I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson
#94. Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne
#95. Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.
Dennis E. Adonis
#96. I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?
Mario Balotelli
#97. The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
Martin O'Malley
#98. I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
Glenn Greenwald
#99. The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
Will Rogers
