#voting

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #always #budgets #day #decision

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#american people #could #deprive #ever #except

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues. ↗

— Tony Snow

#best #exercised #issues #learn #people

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#oh #republican #risen #voting

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#care #funding #health #health care #language

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#always #angry #bad #basketball #best

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#comes #common #common sense #great #maturity

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#elite #elitism #elitist #meritocracy #politics

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#done #election #hundreds #members #never