Voting Quotes - Page 19

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.

What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.

Elections matter and voting counts.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.

Women will do anything Oprah Winfrey says, and that is why we can't have women voting.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.

It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

Don't make the mistake, America, of voting for Barack Obama who, by the way, does not come out of the American black experience and everything white Americans feel guilty about. He's a Hawaiian born in 1961.

If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

Indonesian people have no idea whom they are actually voting for, or of what their political system consists of. It is so easy to fool them.

Actually, voting in countries like Indonesia is unpatriotic, as it only legitimizes the regime, which serves foreign political and economic interests, as well as those totally prostituted 'elites'.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.