Legislative Voting Quotes

Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.

[As the minority] you vote for the legislation that’s presented to you. That’s sometimes a very difficult choice to make.

I don't care what kind of speeches you make as long as you don't vote against the appropriations.

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

In 1920, at the height of one of the "Red scares," the New York State legislature voted to unseat five legally elected Socialist assemblymen:] The ballot is the legitimate weapon of the Socialists just as it is of the general public.

My party was the only party that opposed the bifurcation of the state in Parliament, and I was suspended from the House along with the other MP from my party. TDP supported and voted for bifurcation, as did the Congress and BJP. Every party barring mine voted.

Thomas Edison invented a voting machine so that legislators can just press a button. It was a failure. Legislators didn’t want people to know how they had voted.

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

Democrats didn't agree with policies. How do I know? Because they voted against them when they came up on the floor of the House and the Senate.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

It’s just a fact of life that Congressmen vote on bills that they have never even read..

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

Mr. President, in carrying out my conscientious views I greatly regret that it is sometimes necessary for me to vote on the same side with the Senator from Louisiana [Huey P. Long]; but when I do so, I wish to assure the Senator from Louisiana that it makes me feel doubtful of my own position... The Senator is so generally wrong that I can hardly believe that he is right any time.

I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.

Politicians must pick sides regularly; every time they vote. So it's perhaps natural that they see the world as a battle between competing groups.

I'm have one of the most, if not the most, moderate voting records in Congress in the Florida delegation.

No legislator ever got in trouble for voting against a bill that passed or for a bill that didn’t pass.

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

We should not allow the minority to control the majority by requiring super majorities on budget related votes.

When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.

Chet Edwards votes for every bailout and against ending any bailout!

I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.