Ballot Box Quotes
Where civic voice actually begins.
These ballot box quotes treat voting as the foundation of civic life - from questioning how fairly it's used in other countries, to insisting that strong local communities begin with every eligible voter having a real American voice.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
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.
Abortion Quotes
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no...
Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like...
Strong communities start at the ballot box - where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.
During the New Deal, liberals recognized that the ballot box and elected branches are generally the appropriate engines of social reform, and liberals used both to spectacular effect - instituting profound social changes that remain deeply ingrained in society today.
When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.
Admirers Quotes
Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly...
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.
The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
America Quotes
We can have all the walkouts we want, but if we don't walk to that ballot box and make our voices heard, these politicians aren't going to listen.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What do these ballot box quotes focus on?
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Do any quotes connect voting to local communities?
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Do these quotes favor one political side?
Others look back historically, describing how past reform movements relied on elections and elected government - the ballot box itself - to pursue lasting change, tying it to a longer thread of America's political history.
