Top 330 Ballot Quotes & Sayings

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties shall rule the other, the weaker must always succumb. And whether the contest be carried on with ballots or bullets, the principle is the same; for under the theory of government now prevailing, the ballot either signifies a bullet, or it signifies nothing. And no one can consistently use a ballot, unless he intends to use a bullet, if the latter should be needed to insure submission to the former.

Our Facebook went off the charts and volunteers poured into our campaigns and actually helped us achieve the ballot access status that we have now on the ballot in just about 48 states and this has continued.

The sanctity of ballot should not be trampled.

Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

It is easier for a political party to attain national ballot status in Russia today than it is for the Libertarian party or the Green party to get on the ballot in, say, Pennsylvania.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

Money has much more power down the ballot.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would refuse to either man or woman except the freedom to invade ... whoever has the ballot has the freedom to invade, and whoever wants the ballot wants the freedom to invade. Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

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 harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

Democracy, as a governing system, is built on the foundational concept that when you cast your ballot, that ballot ensures your voice, will, and perspective will be accounted for in the direction of your city, state, or country.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues. Those are up to the people of Ohio. But I certainly support the efforts of the governor to reign in the scale of government. I am not terribly familiar with the two ballot initiatives. But I am certainly supportive of the Republican Party's efforts here.

Leftists don't leave it at winning at the ballot box. If they lose at the ballot box, they force themselves on the country or society elsewhere.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing.

Barack Obama thinks he's universally loved and adored because of that approval rating, which is a lie or a misrepresentation. It's mainly people that don't have the guts to tell a pollster that they disapprove of the job because of the racial component, because whenever Obama's policies are on the ballot, they get skunked! If he's on ballot with them, not so bad.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

You know, something like 90 people who have now filed to run for governor in this recall election. They say there could be as many as 200 people on the ballot. You know, it's really easy to run here in California. All you need is like a couple of signatures, not many, thirty-five hundred bucks, you're on the ballot, like that. I mean, what does it say about California? We have stricter requirements to get on 'American Idol' than we do to run for governor.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The ballot is the only safety.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

The military belongs in its barracks, not our ballot boxes.

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot.

Anybody who puts himself on a ballot has to have a big ego, we have to have it.

People don't wake up to go to vote and then have their ballot not counted.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

We're never going to have a perfect candidate unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot.

Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Never forgive at the ballot box!

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

No one went to the ballot box to vote for something worse than the status quo.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.