Quotes about Voting

I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.

I'm born into a family of preachers. So I want Mr. Trump to remember that many people who voted for him took a long time praying for him. And if he can take some of that divine guidance, that's going to help him out.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.