Nelson Mandela Quotes

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect your jobs, 60 seconds to protect the services your family relies on. A lot is at stake during those 60 seconds.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

I love election day, and I love to vote.

The first time I voted, I voted for myself.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

Voting is still the most exciting thing we do as Americans together.

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

You’ve got the strongest hand in the world, the hand that marks the ballot, the hand that pulls the voting lever. Use it, will ya? Use it!”

I am a person who has never used violence himself. My present opinion is that people who have obtained the ballot should use it and solve their problems in that way. In the case of peoples who have not obtained the ballot, and who cannot control their states, I again find in my own mind a division of opinion, which is not logical, but purely a rough practical judgment. My own forefathers got their political freedom by violence; that is to say, they overthrew the British crown and made themselves a free Republic. Also by violence they put an end to the enslavement of the black race on this continent.

More Americans bowl than vote.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.

We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.'

The vote is the important thing. Just go and vote.