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Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot. — Paul Ryan

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. — Neil Kinnock

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward. — Virginia Foxx

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. — Abraham Lincoln

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

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

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. — Donald Rumsfeld

What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN. — Wavy Gravy

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot. — Charles Duhigg

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme. — Avi Rubin

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

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. — Rose Schneiderman

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day. — Neil Kinnock

Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump. — Dalia Mogahed

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. — E. Franklin Frazier

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in. — Carl Lewis

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

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box. — Steve Symms

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. — Susan B. Anthony

Finally, at one p.m. on Tuesday, February 17, 180161, on the thirty-sixth ballot, Jefferson prevailed. R — Jon Meacham

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. — Booker T. Washington

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. — Ambrose Bierce

If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot. — Jon Stewart

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

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

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot. — Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

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

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. — Henry Ward Beecher

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. — Gus Hall

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life. — Florence Luscomb

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah. — Karen Elliott House

I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee. — Bert Blyleven

People vote for whom they believe will be the best president and representative for our country. The First Lady is not on the ballot. — Venita Ellick

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. — Sarah Vowell

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot. — Tommy Thompson

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W.E.B. Du Bois

I get it, let's just all write SOS on the ballot. Same Old Shit! — Rodney Ross

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. — Catherine Helen Spence

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. — Harry S. Truman

The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte

Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot. — Daniel Tosh

The ballot is the only safety. — Frederick Douglass

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. — Karl Rove

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. — Herbert Hoover

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass

Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon. — Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character. — Booker T. Washington

I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina. — Lindsey Graham

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. — Tom Ridge

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. — Cory Doctorow

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

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

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. — Simone De Beauvoir

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win. — Jesse Ventura

Democracy is more than a ballot box. — Mohamed ElBaradei

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

Freedom cannot be won by the sword, or held by the ballot. It exists only in the minds of men. — Paul Guildea

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

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot. — Russell Brand

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. — Lysander Spooner

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot. — Eric Schneiderman

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship, — Joseph Estrada

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government. — Barack Obama

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

You can't put civil rights on the ballot. — Jesse Ventura

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction. — Kelly Link

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. — Ida B. Wells

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. — Lydia M. Child

The ballot is stronger than bullets. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

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

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

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

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet. — Saul Alinsky

Never forgive at the ballot box! — Wendell Phillips

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

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

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot. — Boyd K. Packer

Andrea Leadsom promises to publish tax return tomorrow if she gets on ballot - it's boring. — Laura Kuenssberg

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage. — Richard Flanagan

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. — Jane Addams