Tom Stoppard Quotes

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

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

I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I don't think I voted in 2000.

I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn't vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief.

I don't vote.

The extent of my political involvement is that I'm a registered voter - Republican.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

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.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.