Top 100 T'vote Quotes
#1. If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.
Elizabeth Warren
#2. Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
#3. Well, who knew? When they were elected. That they were crooks, I mean." "Pretty much everyone who didn't vote for them, Friedrich. And I suspect quite a few of the stupid fools who did. Which only makes it worse.
Philip Kerr
#4. And, as you recall, last year, people were asking us, don't vote on the bill until you read every part of the bill. So, as a good attorney and as a good legislator, I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments.
Henry Cuellar
#5. Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote.
Prince
#6. Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place
Noam Chomsky
#7. I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.
Ron Paul
#8. 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
#9. The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.
Phyllis Schlafly
#10. If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.
John F. Kerry
#11. Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?
Arthur D. Hlavaty
#12. In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this.
Rand Paul
#13. We focused so much on saying, "Don't vote for them and here's why" and we didn't tell the American people "Vote for us and here's why."
Andrea Tantaros
#15. For God's sake, Helen, I stood in front of my peers and basically said, 'Look, chaps, I can't vote because all I can think about is kissing that brilliant woman who was just in here.' And I don't even bloody know if you still want me to kiss you.
Alexia Adams
#16. Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.
Henry Rollins
#17. If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.
Moby
#18. Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.
Michele Bachmann
#19. As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
Jason Mraz
#20. The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.
Dave Brat
#22. Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
Lamar Alexander
#23. People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.
Joyce Carol Oates
#24. Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Ralph Nader
#25. First of all, citizens don't vote about laws. They vote on representatives. The representatives do the voting about laws.
J. Kraft Mitchell
#26. My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone is registered to vote and you pay a fine if you don't vote.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Marian Wright Edelman
#28. You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
Russel Honore
#29. Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.
Gene Simmons
#30. There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.
Trent Lott
#31. What mostly prevents black people from voting is that drug laws send them to prison, and then they can't vote.
Bill Maher
#32. I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I'd quit tomorrow. I'm not tall, dark and handsome. They don't vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can't get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.
Joe Arpaio
#33. Trump's - has great negatives, enormous negatives, a lot of people say they simply won't vote for him. So if he's gotten media, maybe it hasn't done him so much good.
David Folkenflik
#35. In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#36. I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
Curt Schilling
#37. I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't start bombing Afghanistan the day after Sept. 11. The more time that passes without him bombing Afghanistan, the more I respect him.
William T. Vollmann
#38. On one hand, liberals are enraged at the heinousness of Mark Sanford - whom they didn't vote for - for not resigning and, on the other, they're enraged at Palin - whom they also didn't vote for - for resigning.
Ann Coulter
#39. People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
Frank Herbert
#40. Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Will Harvey
#41. If you don't vote, you don't matter.
Sean Penn
#42. I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.
Kid Rock
#43. It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.
John F. Kerry
#44. Politicians? You can't vote for them and you can't strangle them.
Steve Merrick
#45. Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.
John Doar
#46. If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.
Jesse Ventura
#47. 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
#48. Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.
Donald Trump
#49. People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
Tony Benn
#50. Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal
#51. It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote.
Metiria Turei
#52. Congress didn't vote on the bills, they just wave at them as they go by.
Will Rogers
#53. Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.
Spike Lee
#54. It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.
Dan Rather
#55. If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.
Jean Charest
#56. (If it's any comfort, we should remind ourselves of the purpose of voting. We don't vote to elect great persons to office. They're not that great. We vote to throw the bastards out.)
P. J. O'Rourke
#57. You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
Jesse Jackson
#58. People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.
Lupe Fiasco
#59. I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.
Prince
#60. I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.
George Carlin
#61. Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
Jesse Ventura
#62. You can't fault people for who they vote for, who they don't vote for.
Mike Holloway
#63. The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.
Julia Gillard
#64. I didn't vote for [President Bush]. But I've never said anything bad about the guy because I have respect for the office.
Jon Bon Jovi
#65. Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
Adam Carolla
#66. In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.
Michael Moore
#68. Uh.. you'er Sophie?" Mrianda ventured
"That's me"
"How old areyou?"
Sophie rolled ker wide brown eyes,
"Ahunderd and forty-eight" she relied. "I got to live back when women coulden't vote, isn't that awesome?
Dianne Sylvan
#69. I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.
John Wayne
#70. I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.
Russell Brand
#71. The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one."
"Don't vote. It just encourages them ...
Billy Connolly
#72. Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#73. When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person.
Shirin Ebadi
#74. I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
Byron Dorgan
#75. It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
Kate Williams
#76. People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
Frank Carson
#77. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
Hugh Evans
#78. The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
Andrew Vachss
#79. On the subject of "personal beauty," for example, Lincoln merrily confided he felt fortunate that "'the women couldn't vote,' otherwise the monstrous portraits of him which had been circulated during the canvas by friends as well as by foes would surely defeat him.
Harold Holzer
#80. America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live.
Rick Allen
#81. 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
#82. I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
Eric Idle
#83. When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
Joan Blades
#84. I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
Gail Collins
#85. Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
Octavia Butler
#86. I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
Yahya Jammeh
#87. I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.
Gary Hume
#88. If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.
Georges Clemenceau
#89. I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town."
"Depends on the human," Claire said. "As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn't vote him to be in charge.
Rachel Caine
#90. I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.
Arthur Scargill
#92. Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.
Bill Maher
#93. I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.
Shaquille O'Neal
#94. When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.
Toby Keith
#95. When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.
Hillary Clinton
#96. Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.
Jay Leno
#98. There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
P. J. O'Rourke
#99. You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.
Hillary Clinton
#100. If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.
John F. Kerry
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