Voting Age Quotes

Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

Women, what age soever they are of, are not considered as having a sufficient acquired discretion to exercise the franchise

Can we in good conscience expect youth to work within the system when we deny them that very opportunity?

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

The only people that should vote should be legal.

The right to vote belongs to every Polish citizen without distinction of sex, who, on the day of the proclamation of the elections, is twenty-one years of age

To me, the most compelling reason for lowering the voting age [to 18] is that American politics needs the infusion that younger voting would give it.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on the voting age. I think that it should remain as it is.

The age of eighteen, far more than the age of twenty-one, has been and is the age of maturity in America—and never more than now.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.

I can't even vote in America!

We made a mistake lowering the voting age to 18. I think it happened basically out of guilt.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

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!

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.