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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. -- Charles Bukowski
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. -- Tony Snow
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. -- Karl Rove
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. -- John F. Kennedy
The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. -- Will Rogers
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. -- Richard Armour
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. -- Thomas Sowell
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. -- William E. Simon
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -- Winston Churchill
Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world. -- Sharon Salzberg
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- Benjamin Franklin
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. -- 2 Chainz
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. -- Hillary Clinton
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character. -- Noah Webster
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules. -- Jeff Miller
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. -- Coretta Scott King
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote. -- David Foster Wallace
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy. -- Henry Rollins
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. -- James A. Garfield
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country. -- Samuel Adams
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas. -- Juan Williams
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so. -- Andrew Young
Voting is a civic sacrament. -- Theodore Hesburgh
Voting is an individual, personal thing. -- Hill Harper
Voting is the first duty of democracy. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It -- Ken Livingstone
Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves. -- Kerry Washington
Voting is the foundation stone for political action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. -- Henry David Thoreau
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. -- Rand Paul
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. -- Arlen Specter
Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least. -- Gloria Steinem
Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one. -- Monica Crowley
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement. -- Gerald Celente
Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans. -- Christine Pelosi
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. -- Sharon Salzberg
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act. -- Anthony Kennedy
Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do. -- Julianne Malveaux
Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. -- DeForest Soaries
Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3. -- Boris Johnson
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. -- Jane Bowles
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting. -- H. L. Mencken
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. -- Neil Postman
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. -- Ralph Barton Perry
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. -- Howard Zinn
Voting is a right that has been given to every American; however, as Christ followers, our votes should reflect our God. -- Monica Johnson
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people -- Ron Holland
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(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People. -- James Joyce
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. -- Bill Bonner
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. -- Charles Rangel
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear. -- Charles Rangel
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act. -- Patrick Leahy
Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light. -- Artur Davis
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society. -- Aberjhani
Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government. -- Marty Meehan
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin- -- Maggie Stiefvater
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. -- Elijah Cummings
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. -- Loung Ung
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history. -- Barbara Boxer
This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation. -- Stephanie Cutter
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
Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than a paper representative of the bayonet, the bully, and the bullet. -- Benjamin Tucker
Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care. -- Boy George
Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency. -- James Bovard
It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic. -- Henry Rollins
It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next Congresswoman, I will stand up to the extremists in the Republican Party to ensure civil rights are protected for everyone. -- Alma Adams
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Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country. -- George Carlin
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. -- Chuck D
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color. -- Adam McKay
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. -- Robert Frost
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. -- Tom Stoppard
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard
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
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. -- Larry Flynt
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. -- Barbara Boxer
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that. -- Nikki Reed
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced. -- Marc Morial
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. -- Barbara Boxer
As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk. -- James Howard Kunstler
All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting. -- Lupe Fiasco
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. -- Penn Jillette
Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights. -- Jeff Greenfield
Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. -- Steve Jobs
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society. -- Benazir Bhutto
Elections matter and voting counts. -- Barack Obama
I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton. -- Joe Heck
I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman. -- Chelsea Clinton
I've never disclosed for whom I'm voting. -- Max Lucado
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. -- Emma Goldman
I don't feel comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton. -- Glenn Beck
There is nothing patriotic about voting for Brexit. -- Ruth Davidson
I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump. -- Glenn Beck
If voting changed anything, it would be illegal. -- George Carlin
I don't vote. I don't do no voting. -- Kendrick Lamar
If voting made any difference, it would be illegal, -- Philip Berrigan
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting. -- Robert Frost
If voting could change anything, it would be illegal. -- Jello Biafra
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. -- Al Smith
Vote wisely, even if that means not voting at all. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal. -- Noam Chomsky
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home. -- Earl Long
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense. -- Julianne Malveaux

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