I’m a big believer if you want to change people’s minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you’ve got to first get their attention. – Aaron Schock
Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office. – Betty Hill
In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries. – Bernie Sanders
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat. – Bill Kristol
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization. – Al Sharpton
I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to – they like commercial music. – Al Walser
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. – Abba Eban
Sharpton and Jackson are ‘race brokers.’ Their job is to define black identity and then keep blacks in line to vote to the highest Democratic bidder that serves their purposes. ‘Black enough’ is just another tool in the bamboozler’s toolbox. – Angela McGlowan
When the people’s representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war. – Chris Gibson
What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that’s exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
We need to have people who are talking about, ‘Here’s exactly what I would do differently.’ That’s what’s important as we go vote. – Bill Haslam
The Jewish people remember the dramatic vote in the U.N. Assembly on November 29, 1947, when representatives of the nations recognized our right to national revival in our historic homeland. – Ariel Sharon
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. – Coretta Scott King
I cast my first vote on my father’s lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8. – Christopher Buckley
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged – and without which none can be protected. – Benjamin Todd Jealous
I don’t think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it’s much more than that. It’s not just a black man. It’s not just a feel-good vote. It’s the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference. – Aunjanue Ellis
You can’t just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate. – Antonio Villaraigosa
To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, ‘Will I vote for Trump,’ that’s defeatist. I’m not going to be a defeatist. – Cory Gardner
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. – Ambrose Bierce
So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they’re voting for. – Betty Hill
When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote. – Alexei Navalny
Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill – on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida. – Adam Hasner
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). – Ayn Rand
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. – Alan K. Simpson
