Elections aren’t just about who votes but who doesn’t vote.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can’t get out the vote in the midterm elections.

If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

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.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

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.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I vote and I do jury duty.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor’s races, is it’s all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that – in that district or that state is.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.