Browsing Topic Best Elections And Voting Quotes

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

I can’t vote for that guy. I’d rather vote for Trump than [Biden]. I don’t think he can handle anything. You’re relying entirely on his cabinet. If you want to talk about an individual leader who can communicate, he can’t do that. And we don’t know what the fuck he’ll be like after a year in office.

The heart of elections is competition. If you take that away it becomes a corpse.

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

The denial of this sacred right [to vote] is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic tradition.

I’m a proud democrat. But I will govern as an American president. I’ll work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as those who did.

I think I’ll probably vote for Bernie… He’s been insanely consistent his entire life. He’s basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life. And that in and of itself is a very powerful structure to operate from.

In the past, I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold.

Before the Virginia elections, it was very clear that our help and our participation was not wanted or asked for, which is fine. I’m not here to tell people how to run their races. But at the same time, to consider the members here that have some of the tightest relationships to our political base as just a uniform liability — and not something that can be selectively deployed, or consulted, or anything — I think it’s just sad. I think it was a mistake.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

Vote early and vote often.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law…That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.

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.

Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary.

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.

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.