Vote Quotes - Page 24

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

I would have bet money that Britain would not vote to leave the EU, and I would have been wrong. I would have bet money that Trump would not have been the Republican nominee, and I would have been wrong and I certainly would have bet money that he wouldn't win the election.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Hotels are amazing spaces and platform for activism. If they placed voting booths in hotels and other space of hospitality - a lot more people would vote. Voting poll stations aren't easily accessible. These phone booths should be in more hotels and public spaces. Activism is accessibility. Bravo to the Standard for making it possible.

They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.

There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote.

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

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

For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.

You could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to withdraw from the U.S. neoliberalism that has been running Europe for the last ten years.

Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

You don't say that for a senator to be a great senator he has to vote against his constituency.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.