When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.
I won the vote but shunned the soft parade [...] I won every battle and lost the war" ( )
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women.
