Voting Quotes - Page 5

We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the news has somehow become gerrymandered and is continuing to be gerrymandered in America.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.

Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.

Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. Thats democracy.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them.

Young people voted [on Brexit] to remain by a considerable margin, but were outvoted. They were voting for their future, yet it has been taken from them.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.