Ballot Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (B) Quotes

Everyone always presumes I`m a Republican. I`m not. I couldn`t vote for either one of those guys in the last election. I looked at the pair of them and was like, `What do you want to do - get punched or get kicked?` It was a terrible choice to have to make. So I found somebody else on the ballot who was an independent who I liked the sound of. I can`t even remember his name.

- Mel Gibson

First rule of politics: you can`t win unless you`re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

- Donald Rumsfeld

The ad hoc committee has not been opposed to the amendment change being on the ballot at all, ... We had many public meetings. I will not tell people how to vote. Citizens should vote their conscience.

- Jeff Anderson

That`s not the way the ballot is worded, ... There is nothing in the language that refers to anything but a privately-owned prison.

- Jeff Anderson

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

- Sarah Vowell

The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice system to achieve the political victories that they failed to win at the ballot box makes them no better than Third World despots who impose their political will by jailing their opponents.

- James Ellis

We`ve had to be creative to get on the ballot.

- Kinky Friedman

We`ve got to stand up and put it (a bond issue) on the ballot... I`ve got to pay taxes like everybody else, but it will benefit us all, not just kids, the whole community. A school tells me what the community is like,

- Jeff Phillips

He would have been a shoo-in to go in on the first ballot.

- Brad Wright

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

- Benjamin Harrison

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

- John Bright

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

- John Bright

I call on all parties to accept the verdict of the ballot box and to refrain from rhetoric which may fuel division in Ukraine.

- Terry Davis

For example, in all eleven states that had initiatives to ban same-sex marriage on the ballot, voters upheld the traditional family in every instance.

- John Doolittle

You never expect to hit a home run off a guy like that, ... He`s the best pitcher in baseball. He`s been the best pitcher in baseball -- him and Smoltz. He`s a first-ballot Hall of Famer. So this is something I won`t forget.

- Brian McCann

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

- Charles Rangel

We`re in this race to stay. We don`t - quite frankly, people are going to decide who is going to be their next United States senator at the ballot.

- Katherine Harris

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

- Al Melanson

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

- Alaa Abdel Fattah

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

- Alaa Abdel Fattah

The Voters League was, because you`d get ballots printed and they would have the people`s names on the ballot, who was favorable to our movement.

- Alan Garber

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

- Alejandro Freire

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

- Alexander Brod

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

- Alexis E. Fajardo

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor`s office.

- Alison O'Connor

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

- Allan Reid

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

- Alvin Franco

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

- Amanda Simmons

When we turn out women for Debbie Stabenow, we know it will help (Democratic) men down the ballot,

- Andris Piebalgs

We do not believe that, in the end, a democratic state can be built when parties or candidates seek power not only through the ballot but through terrorist activities as well.

- Angelei Aguirre

We`re also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot.

- Ann Fields

There are five swing states that on Election Day have gay marriage bans on the ballot,

- Annie Bunker

These abortion bans, and the politicians supporting them, are far outside the mainstream of America. Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in court, in the state houses and at the ballot boxes to ensure that women, with their doctors and families, continue to be able to make personal health-care decisions without government interference.

- Annie Stuart

Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in courts, in the state houses, at the ballot boxes to ensure that women with their doctors and families continue to be able to make personal health care decisions without government interference.

- Annie Stuart

The bottom line is I would expect some form of debt exclusion question to appear on next April`s ballot, either to cover the design costs or the whole thing, ... We cannot obtain state approval and the funding that comes with it without a commitment from the voters.

- Anthony Burke

We didn`t wake up in August 2003 and decide to be on the next ballot. This took many efforts at financing and planning this building.

- Anthony Germany

He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot.

- Anthony Gooch

This is a gross injustice. Boca Raton is one of the best-run cities in Florida and yet our mayor and council members are the lowest-paid in the region. We should put this issue on the ballot because this is the right thing to do.

- Anthony Schlegel

A ballot statement is supposed to be about your education and qualifications. It`s not supposed to be a hit piece.

- Ashish Jha

Any registered voter eligible to vote in the election may vote by absentee ballot without stating a reason.

- Assar Lindbeck

The ballot this year is highly complex. We are trying to make sure that people understand the ballot. For the first time this year, it is electronically readable.

- Azzam Alwash

Kevin and Bert won in the primary, and this tells the voters who the candidates will be who appear on the Democratic line on the ballot.

- Barry Blauvelt