„Don't vote, it just encourages them.“

„Please don't recount this vote.“

—  Al Gore 45th Vice President of the United States 1948

Webby Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech http://www.webbyawards.com/press/speeches.php (limited to 5 words) (6 June 2005).

„If you don't vote, you're a moron.“

—  Craig Ferguson Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist 1962

„If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.“

—  Jeremy Hardy British comedian 1961 - 2019

Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, BBC Radio 4, 13 September 2004

„You don't want to encourage people to do such a thing.“

—  Jesse Ventura American politician and former professional wrestler 1951

I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Kontextus: I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide. Of course, there are exceptions; people who are terminally ill are a different issue. But in the vast majority of cases, suicide is a tragedy that does unbelievable damage to the family and friends the suicide leaves behind. You don't want to encourage people to do such a thing.

„And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney — [crowd boos] No, no, no — Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

Springfield, Ohio campaign event http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/11/02/remarks-president-springfield-oh,
quoted in * 2012-11-02
Obama to supporters: Voting 'best revenge' against Mitt Romney
Joe
Newby
Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/node/54880521
2012-11-03 and * 2012-11-03
Obama tells crowd 'voting is the best revenge'; Romney freaks out
Laura
Clawson
Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/03/1154805/-Obama-tells-crowd-voting-is-the-best-revenge-Romney-freaks-out
2012-11-03
2012

„Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote“

—  Gouverneur Morris American politician 1752 - 1816

Debate at the Constitutional Convention http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1909&layout=html#chapter_112488 (August 8 1787)
1780s
Kontextus: Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote. Are they property? Why, then, is no other property included? The houses in this city are worth more than all the wretched slaves who cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission of slaves into the Representation when fairly explained comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the Coast of Africa, and in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages, shall have more votes in a Government instituted for protection of the rights of mankind, than the Citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror, so nefarious a practice.

„We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.“

—  Jonathan Tropper American writer 1970

Forrás: One Last Thing Before I Go

„When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said — remember this, this is the Iron Lady — she said, "The British national health care system is safe in my hands." She wasn't going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you can't take it away from them. And the reason is because most people don't get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick. Then, if you get sick and you don't get health care, you die and you don't vote. It's actually a pretty clever system. Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you. That's how it works.“

—  Rick Santorum American politician 1958

Young Americans for Freedom event, Reagan Ranch, , quoted in

„Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.“

—  Naomi Klein Canadian author and activist 1970

„I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
-Calvin“

—  Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958

19 Jan 91
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Forrás: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

„Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.“

—  Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

Forrás: Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s, Government in the Future, 1970, p. 140.

„I've heard over and over that people don't vote on the basis of foreign policy.“

—  John R. Bolton American lawyer and diplomat 1948

"The Man with the Mustache"

„Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.“

—  George Raymond Richard Martin American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948

Interview with GamePro magazine (8 April 2003)

„We don't tell 'em how to vote—we simply suggest.“

—  Martin Lomasney American politician 1859 - 1933

Van Nostrand, Albert D. (December 1948). "The Lomasney Legend". The New England Quarterly. 21 (4): 437. JSTOR 361565 https://www.jstor.org/stable/361565

„I don't expect it to be easy, but I'm certain it will be fruitful. My mission is to take a different approach: Instead of explicitly encouraging young people to read, my goal is to get them to see the value in their own narratives — that they, too, have a story, and that there's power not just in telling it, but in the opportunity to do so.“

—  Jason Reynolds author of young adult novels 1983

As quoted in [Jason Reynolds Named New National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-002/jason-reynolds-named-new-national-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature/2020-01-13/, Library of Congress, 10 March 2020, January 13, 2020]

„I don't think it's so important who you vote for — you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.“

—  Cass Elliot American singer 1941 - 1974

Appearance on The Midnight Special in August 1972 in a Get Out The Vote drive; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.

„But things don't just fall apart. People break them.“

—  Robin Wasserman American writer of speculative fiction for young people 1978

Forrás: The Book of Blood and Shadow

„People are told over and over, "Don't vote your values. Vote your fears." But what we got was everything we were afraid of.“

—  Jill Stein American politician and physician 1950

"The Two-Party System Is Killing Democracy," May 23, 2016 http://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/735052996636210/

„The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994