Voting & Elections

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. W.C. Fields

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Eugene McCarthy

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai Stevenson at 1956 Democratic National Convention

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. Henry David Thoreau

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. President John F. Kennedy

Suffrage is the pivotal right. Susan B. Anthony

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. Tom Stoppard

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson colour of it should creep into his vote ... The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes. G.K. Chesterton

Why should I? Someone is bound to do it for me. Anonymous rickshaw driver in Bangladesh, 1988