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Voting Quotes

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

Integrity Voting Security Rights

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Character Decision Name Voting Judge

I'm not going to advocate for a female leader who I'm voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.

Leader People Think Voting Gender

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.

Money Voting Take Because Corporate

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

Daniel Kahneman

Voting Stronger Nobody Say Guy Got

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Voting Intellectual Emotional Act

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

Business Blame Voting Political

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

Good Democracy Voting Push You See

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Support Voting Civil Rights Rights

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Voting America Vote Will Real Laws

Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

Purpose Voting Vote Others Clearly

More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.

Jose Angel Gurria

Change Trust People Democracy Voting

Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'

Life Day People Me Saying Voting

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Politics Voting Country Chicago Duty

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.

Good People Voting Meaning Tax Want

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

DeForest Soaries

Challenges Voting Attention New Paid

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

Path Action Stand Voting Immigration

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

Christine Todd Whitman

Change Democracy Voting Way Only

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

I Am Equality Colleagues Voting Sure

I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'

Love Hope I Am Me Voting Someone

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Yourself Stupid Voting Glow You Go

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

Anthony Kennedy

Voting Questions Urgency Rights Act

For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.

Preston Manning

Confidence Voting Back Question Role

I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.

Time Service Government Voting Way

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