Voting Election Quotes

#1. I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

Michael Nutter

#2. But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

Andy Andrews

#3. Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

Hill Harper

#4. California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up.

Conan O'Brien

#5. It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#6. Voter: someone smart enough to choose how to be fooled.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#7. Find a person to love who shares same interests with you.

Ronald Molmisa

#8. For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#9. Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Evan Esar

#10. We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

Julius Malema

#11. They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

Criss Jami

#12. Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

Deepak Chopra

#13. We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#14. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

Sinclair Lewis

#15. Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.

Carine Roitfeld

#16. What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

Jawaharlal Nehru

#17. The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

Rand Paul

#18. No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. 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

#20. Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

John M. McHugh

#21. Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

Mimi Kennedy

#22. We will see at the end of the day. I don't like to speculate. Our goal in this election is to do better than in the last one.

Helen Zille

#23. There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

David Blunkett

#24. 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

#25. Attraction is instinct, but action is a choice.

Erica Cameron

#26. A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan

#27. History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

Colm Toibin

#28. The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

George Carlin

#29. You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful
don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.

Maya Angelou

#30. You have to be someone.

Bob Marley

#31. I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

Billy Casper

#32. There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

Emily Yoffe

#33. In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.

David Levithan

#34. Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.

William Poundstone

#35. Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Noam Chomsky

#36. I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.

Wendy Davis

#37. I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Rachel Zucker

#38. It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#39. I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

Patrick McHenry

#40. Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

Ashwin Sanghi

#41. The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself ... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin

#42. I have consistently made it very clear that I will vote a straight Democratic ticket, just like I do every election. From the local Constable to the President, I will be voting for every Democrat on the ballot.

Henry Cuellar

#43. If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

Criss Jami

#44. Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

Cecil Castellucci