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To choose not to choose is still to act.
When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad, abstain from it.
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.
In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is
silent dissents.
If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
I've never voted, no.
I am a contrarian.
I answer not, and I return no more.
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.
It takes true courage and real humility to say NO or YES!
Your silence gives consent.
Even though it is a Great Right to Vote :
I refuse to participate on the elections :
Petra Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 22, 2016
Vote tonight?" "I did not apply for
We reject: kings, presidents and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.
The Present Celebrates Those Who Say "Yes". History Exalts And Remembers Those Who Said "No
I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Rise and take your stance once again
If you vote against act in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.
"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
The great silent majority.
Always resent, never relent.
Anything worthwhile is opposed.
Nothing that results in progress is achieved by unanimous consent!
He who is silent is seen to consent.
No decision about me without me.
A laconic Texas lawmaker declined to use his considerable influence to intervene in a loud dispute between his colleagues. When asked why not, he said, They're not voting. If they're not voting, they're not passing any laws. If they're not passing any laws, they're not hurting anybody.
It is idle to await unanimity.
I was not in favor of U.S. troops in Lebanon. And I voted against it.
You can't have 'yes' people around you.
Repudiates vehemently as soon as he gets a grip on himself
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war
refuses to consider
Not to decide is to decide.Decide-- Harvey Cox
Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.
Withholding a decision is a decision.
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.Closer-- Mark Cuban
If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.
After the final no there comes a yes.
Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES'today.
Saying No Is Actually Saying Yes To Other Things
I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
If you don't vote, you don't matter.
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.
The duty of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is to oppose.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
The last thing members of the committee want to do is pass legislation.
There are no undecideds. There are only people that decided to be undecided.
I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
man had blandly abstained. He had been right: it would have lost him money. But not in Scotland,
I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.
Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.
In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.
I am rather inclined to silence.
Your disapproval is noted. It is legitimate. You are welcome to disapprove. But you are not welcome to be ignorant, to look the other way, to be unable to perform - should you change your mind.
I stay neutral with homosexuality; I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere.
I have decided not to die.
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
I don't like politicians who vacillate.
will not hold ourselves bound to obey the laws in which we have no voice of representation.
'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.'
Choose, but don't want.
I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.18
Inaction is no longer acceptable.
I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.
to not act is a choice too
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
There are a thousand no's for every yes.
If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.