#vote

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#choose #citizens #city #democracy #fed

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on. ↗

— Toby Keith

#being #built #day-to-day #everybody #i

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#affiliation #against #american #away #either

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#her #herself #husband #influence #ought

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row. ↗

— Ralph Kiner

#fame #five #hall #row #voted

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss. ↗

— Alveda King

#brown #candidate #disagreed #electing #him

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes. ↗

— Alveda King

#democrats #discussion #economic #economic growth #fought

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote. ↗

— Alveda King

#cain #change #conservatives #democrats #demographic

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #decide #due #go #i

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#clear #congress #constitution #dec #direction