Democracy is more than a ballot box.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

The sanctity of ballot should not be trampled.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box, as do all of us politicians.

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

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

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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

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

Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.

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

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

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

My father was raised a union Democrat. He cast his first ballot for a Republican in 1980 for Ronald Reagan.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

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.

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

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

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

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.

Strong communities start at the ballot box - where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

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

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

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

The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.

In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

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

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

Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.

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.

At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'

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