Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.
I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. . . . The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff. . . had stumbled against the future.
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.
As far as [Bernie] Sanders is concerned, he's probably the most honest of all of them. But we have to be careful, because this is the most important election [2016] in the history of this country; because you're not just voting for a president, you're voting for the person who can take America totally down! America will never be great as she once was, again, but she can survive if she does the right thing.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.
I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.
Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women. These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.
I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
