Vote For Quotes

#1. People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.

William B. Munro

#2. There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

Walter E. Williams

#3. Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Jerry Rubin

#4. I don't think that Saddam Hussein is deliberately starving his own people. I would think that a man who gets 99 percent of the people to vote for him in an election and the people love him so much, how would they love a man that is starving them?

Louis Farrakhan

#5. I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

Dave Barry

#6. Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

Anne Campbell

#7. We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

Jim Messina

#8. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Dave Brat

#9. It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

Pete Sampras

#10. 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

#11. My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

Wendy Harmer

#12. And then you've got Lieberman, who is for the war. And thinks the tax cuts could really help. He's basically for people who want to vote for Bush but don't think Bush is Jewish enough.

Jon Stewart

#13. Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Gloria Steinem

#14. I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

Curt Schilling

#15. Every vote for a governing office is an instrument for enslaving me.

M. E. Lazarus

#16. If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

William J. Clinton

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them.

Rod Serling

#20. It is easy to imagine situations where we sacrifice both freedom and safety at the same time: when we enter an abusive relationship or vote for a fascist. Similarly,

Timothy Snyder

#21. The kingdom of God is not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is a kingdom ruled by a King, and God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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R.C. Sproul

#22. Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.

Judith Curry

#23. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.

Chris Hedges

#24. I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

#25. I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.

Pat Paulsen

#26. What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#27. But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Clare Short

#28. As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Richard Rogers

#29. We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Ed Markey

#30. 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

#31. Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

Edward Abbey

#32. As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.

David Villa

#33. Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

Will Rogers

#34. Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

Victor Gold

#35. I really believe that anybody on the Left or the Right that tries to invoke the teachings of Jesus to say they should vote for this candidate or that candidate, I think they're stretching Scripture.

Jerry Falwell Jr.

#36. These are people that are gonna vote for Hillary Clinton. They couldn't care less that she is sleazy. They couldn't care less that she cannot tell the truth. They couldn't care less that she exposes this nation to great risk.

Rush Limbaugh

#37. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Gore Vidal

#38. If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

Marianne Williamson

#39. My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I've never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.

Lawrence Kudlow

#40. This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.

Herman Cain

#41. I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

Cass Elliot

#42. I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war

Jeannette Rankin

#43. Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.

Shashi Tharoor

#44. At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

Tony Benn

#45. Politicians? You can't vote for them and you can't strangle them.

Steve Merrick

#46. I'll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That's all I need to know.

Seth Rogen

#47. Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.

Otis Moss III

#48. Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.

Tucker Carlson

#49. I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Emir Kusturica

#50. 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

#51. You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Whoopi Goldberg

#52. Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

John Fugelsang

#53. Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

Donald Trump

#54. People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.

Zach Braff

#55. I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.

John McCain

#56. Vote for Toby. Vote for Toby. Hey, baby. How you doin'?" Slight pause. "Vote for Toby.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#57. The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

Jay Leno

#58. I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Pat Robertson

#59. If you vote for Barack Obama in 2012, you'll be doing exactly what the Republicans want you to do.

Michel Templet

#60. Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

Gore Vidal

#61. And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.

John Cornyn

#62. Optimists - people who believe in Britain, who believe in democracy - they're the people I believe who will vote for us to leave and take back control.

Michael Gove

#63. Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

Alan Keyes

#64. I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

Jeff Sessions

#65. Our vote for the safest and most nutritious seafood is Alaskan sockeye or king salmon.

Martha Sears

#66. If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?

Alan Nunnelee

#67. I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call.

Joe Lieberman

#68. If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

John F. Kerry

#69. 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

#70. I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.

Yahya Jammeh

#71. In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

Michael Moore

#72. I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

W.C. Fields

#73. And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

Kinky Friedman

#74. You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

Taylor Swift

#75. I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.

Casey Abrams

#76. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least won't leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.

Max Brooks

#77. I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Barack Obama

#78. These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks. I would never vote for them. I wouldn't even listen to them because there but for the grace of God go they.

Howard Stern

#79. 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

#80. I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is, most folk really don't have choices.

Dick Gregory

#81. If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!

Hans Rosling

#82. I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

Jack Whitehall

#83. 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

#84. I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

Al Walser

#85. I would vote for a Mormon.

Matt Stone

#86. Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.

Rush Limbaugh

#87. You can't fault people for who they vote for, who they don't vote for.

Mike Holloway

#88. If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.

Lewis Black

#89. Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

Jesse Ventura

#90. You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them

Eugene Talmadge

#91. Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.

Mother Angelica

#92. 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

#93. To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote.

Robert Griffin III

#94. The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

Joe McGinniss

#95. I painted my walls yellow, with melted butter, because I recently discovered that I had a popcorn ceiling. It's this kind of reasoning that leads me to think I might make a great politician. Vote for me because hey, I can't be worse than the other guy.

Jarod Kintz

#96. 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

#97. Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no way I'm going to vote for a guy who is just totally uninformed, un-presidential as Donald Trump is.

Bret Stephens

#98. I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.

James Dobson

#99. Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Dorothy Thompson

#100. [On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

Mary McGrory