Jack Kirby (1917–1994) American comic book artist, writer and editor
Source: 1990, Gary Groth interview
Second Term as Prime Minister (1949-1966)
Jack Kirby (1917–1994) American comic book artist, writer and editor
Source: 1990, Gary Groth interview
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
The Six Best Jokes From Wednesday Night's Chris Rock Show at MSG, 2008-05-02, 2008-05-05, New York Magazine http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/05/the_five_best_jokes_from_chris.html, <br class="br">Miscellaneous
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
During the general election of July 1865 where the Chartist Rowcliffe voted for a Conservative and another Liberal in order to oust Palmerston from the two-member constituency; quoted in F. J. Snell, Palmerston's Borough (Tiverton, 1894), pp. 107-112.
1860s
Cass Elliot (1941–1974) American singer
Appearance on The Midnight Special in August 1972 in a Get Out The Vote drive; as quoted at the official Cass Elliot website.
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Up, Simba
Essays
Variant: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Context: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in Howl (1993-07-22).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Statement indicating his opposition to Clark Clifford's advice to Harry S Truman for the US recognition of the state of Israel prior to UN decisions on the partitioning of Palestine, in official State Department records. (12 May 1948)
If you follow Clifford's advice and if I were to vote in the election, I would vote against you.
Marshall's statement as quoted by Clark Clifford in The New Yorker (25 March 1991)