I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind.
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.
I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.
One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.
I pay my taxes, but I've never voted and I never will vote as long as the system works the way it does. Even when Obama was running, I wanted to see a woman run! I'd rather see a woman in the White House as opposed to Obama.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.
As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.
Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.
When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
Our MPs will take decisions on how they're voting on a day-to-day basis. But I'm the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.
No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.
Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.
People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
Every vote matters.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
