Christopher Buckley Quotes

So what you do is you just reach up there and grab that lever [in the voting booth] and say, "All the way with LBJ.

I remember feeling proud as I cast my first vote in Chicago in the 1972 presidential election - President Richard Nixon versus Senator George McGovern. Finally, I could participate. There was so much at stake.

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

I will never vote for Donald Trump.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

I'm a bloody chief justice of Namibia. I've got a degree in political science. But I've never been inside a polling booth in my life. So of course it's a momentous day

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.

My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.

Voting is designed for old people.

The first time I ever cast a vote in my 1992 Blessed Sacrament School poll, I voted for Ross Perot because - Ross Perot.

I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.

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.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

I voted for Barack Obama.

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.