vote quotes

One man shall have one vote.

-John Cartwright
  The People's Barrier Against Undue Influence, ch.1, 'Principles, maxims, and primary rules of politics'.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

- David Richmond Gergen
  In US News &  World Report,10 May.

The elitist attitude is basically suspicious of, and hostile to, themarket precisely becausethemarket issovulgarly democraticone dollar, one vote.

- Norman Krasna
  Two Cheers for Capitalism, ch.2.

I cast only one votefor Jack. It is a rare thing to be able to vote for one's husband for President and I didn't want to dilute it by voting for anyone else.

-Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne  e Bouvier Onassis
On the1960 elections. Quoted in  Arthur M Schlesinger  Jr A  Thousand Days (1965).

How long you women have been trying for the vote.For my part, I mean to get it.

- Christabel Pankhurst
c.1890  Childhood remark, quoted by her mother, Emmeline Pankhurst, in My Own Story (1914), ch.2.

What istheuse offighting for thevoteif we donot havea country to vote in? With that patriotism that has nerved womento enduretorture inprison for thenational good, we ardently desire that our country shall be victorious.

- Emmeline ne  e  Goulden Pankhurst
  Declaring a truce on suffragette activities for the duration of WorldWar I,10 Aug.

Idon'tthink therewasevera piece of music thatchanged a man's decision on how to vote.

- Artur Schnabel
My Life and Music.

In Church your grandsire cut his throat; To do the job too long he tarried, He should have had my hearty vote, To cut his throat before he married.

-Jonathan Swift
  'Verses on the Upright Judge'.

   Fifty per cent of them won't vote and the other half doesn't read newspapers. I hope it's the same.

- Gore originally Eugene Luther Vidal,Jr Vidal
  In Emmy, May.

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

- Keith Spencer Waterhouse
  On MargaretThatcher, attributed.

No writer before the middle of the19th century wrote about the working classes other thanasgrotesques oras pastoral decorations. Then when they were given the vote certain writers started to suck up to them.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  'TheArt of Fiction XXX: EvelynWaugh', in The Paris Review, no.8, Summer/Fall.

The primordial argument against giving woman the vote is that that vote would not represent physical force.

- SirAlmroth Edward Wright
  The Unexpurgated Case againstWoman Suffrage, pt.2.