Quotes about Voting
And I say to you today that we need more folks in this country who are a good crazy….You can't tell what will happen when you get folks with some good crazy…going to the polls to vote!
— Barack Obama
Voting is the best revenge.
— Barack Obama
Well, why were they dumb enough to vote for Leah anyway, is what I asked Nelson. If they knew it was going to get Tata Kuvudundu so riled up? Nelson said some of them that voted for her were put out with Tata Ndu, and some were put out with Father, so everybody ended up getting what they didn't want, and now had to go along with it. Nobody even cares that much one way or another about Leah, is what Nelson said. Oh, well, I told him. That is what we call Democracy.
— Barbara Kingsolver
In recent decades we have seen significant deviation regarding the equal application of the laws, but again, it is not too late to rectify the situation if we the people of the United States take enough interest in our political situation to exercise our right as voters and put people in office who will uphold our Constitution.
— Ben Carson
Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.
— Sojourner Truth
Everyone eligible to vote should be able to do so without unnecessary inconvenience
— Bill Clinton
We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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
I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.
— Henry David Thoreau
Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of that participation. Therefore, every single one of us must learn, as early as possible, to understand and accept our duties as a citizen.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In democracies, we aren't always governed by the people or the parties that we voted for. But when officials are elected, we must respect their authority, as long as they're exercising that authority within the bounds of whatever regulatory frameworks are in place to guide them.
— Reid Hoffman
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.
— Tony Campolo