V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Voting in rigged elections under dictators is like watching a batter pull off a single on the last ball. You know who's going to take the strike!”
“Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.”
“Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.”
Source: Campaign Boot Camp 2.0: Basic Training for Candidates, Staffers, Volunteers, and Nonprofits
“Voting is a civic sacrament.”
“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.”
“Voting is a fundamental right.”
Source: Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think
“Voting is a fundamental right and an important duty in our society.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“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.”
“Voting is a right and if you do not want to exercise that right, who am I or who is anyone to tell you that you are wrong.”
“Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.”
“Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.”
“Voting is about choosing the party that most reflects your current values.”
“Voting is about picking the lessor evil.”
“Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people”
“Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.”
“Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.”
Source: The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
“Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.”
“Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.”
“Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'”
“Voting is not just a right, it's a responsibility. We must elect qualified and reliable leaders, regardless of our political affiliations, to ensure sane and efficient governance. The current political circus with its numerous casualties is a clear reminder of our duty to vote wisely.”
“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.”
“Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.”
“Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.”
“Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.”
Source: Minority Report
“Voting is the best revenge.”
Source: Key Presidential Speeches of President Barack Obama
“Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.”
“Voting is the first duty of democracy.”
“Voting is the foundation stone for political action.”
Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr
“Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.”
“Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.”
Source: The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis
“Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.”
“Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Voting is vitally important, even if an individual vote doesn’t sway a particular election one way or another. It is the only way that “We the People” self-govern. The ability to self-govern is a privilege and a gift – one that we honor by showing up at the ballot booth, even if your vote doesn’t “matter” in altering a particular race. It’s sometimes hard for Americans to fathom that not everyone on the planet enjoys the privilege of self-government. If we want to keep that privilege, we need to exercise it.”
Source: What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why
“Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“Voting may or may not yield the outcome individuals want, but without it, there is no democratic society. Instead of allowing decisions to happen, be sure you take an active roll in making them. This way you don’t give up your power to make decisions. Little elections are a big deal. Voting is a key freedom of American life. Not making a choice is a choice. Letting things happen by default is a choice. If we give up our right to make a choice- we have made a choice. When we choose not to vote, we give our power away to others who will choose for us. Not voting is giving up your right to vote. Not voting is giving up your rights. Not voting is choosing to give up on a democratic society.”
“Voting only in elections is not democracy”
“Voting really doesn't mean anything. I wish I could say something different, but I think it's kind of a sham.”
“Voting reflects your personal ideals.”
“Voting rights are the most basic tenet of our democracy, and the bare minimum one should expect from the government. Our presidents can send our neighbors to war. Local elected officials decide the mundane questions of trash pickup and the weightier issues of hospital closures. At every level of our lives in this republic, we choose men and women to speak for us, yes, but also to determine the direction of our daily lives. And all it takes is a teachers’ strike or a government shutdown to remind us how vital elections can be to the daily rhythms of life.”
Source: Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
“Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote on the basis of race.”
“Voting shapes the future.”
Source: The Secret of Greatness
“Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.”
“Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.”
“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.”
“Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they - the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate - are themselves the government.”
“Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Votre adoration est proportionnelle à votre communion avec Dieu et comment vous êtes libre”