Electoral Decision Quotes

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

Donald Trump has not yet earned my vote. And I'm not simply going to say 'never,' because I do not want to empower Hillary Clinton.

I would almost certainly vote for Trump if I was American.

I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

I would vote for you for President but I'm against big government.

Voters are not great at reading issues. They are great at reading character.

When George W. Bush decided to save the American position in Iraq by going against the advice of all of his wise men, of Jim Baker and the whole Iraq Study Group, and 90% of his administration, that was George W. Bush's decision. So we have to bear in mind that this isn't an administration we're electing. It's a person that we are electing.

The election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.

The American people get to express themselves, and in the ways that they choose. But I have got to tell you, I - this convention, I have sensed a tremendous amount of energy, a tremendous amount of unity, not around the personalities, but around the choice that we face in the fall.

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.

Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

I'm voting for Hillary Clinton, proudly. I think it's her time. I think she's very experienced, I think she'd make a good president. I also think it would be monumental to have the first female president in the United States.

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

I didn't say [Steve Scalise] was fanatically pro-Israel. I said I wouldn't vote for because he supports state of Israel which has committed terrorism against American in the Lavon Affair.

You should not insult me by calling me a Republican. I have only voted Republican once in my life, and I have regretted it ever since.

All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary [Clinton] and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.

Latinos have enough voting power now to decide elections, and every smart politician knows this.We can't afford to give our vote to those who alienate us, but neither to those who take us for granted.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.