Be sure to visit the polling place in your neighborhood on Tuesday and vote. Polls are open until 8 p.m. Here are some quotations about elections to get you thinking:

 

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” — Winston Churchill

 

“Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.” — George McGovern

 

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” — Franklin Pierce Adams

 

“Elections should be held on April 16, the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.” — Thomas Sowell

 

“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.” — Nelson Mandela

 

“It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.” — Margaret Thatcher

 

“It’s heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on Election Day.” — Moby

 

“A vote is like a rifle: It’s usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” — Theodore Roosevelt

 

“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

“If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.” — Jay Leno

 

“Suffrage is the pivotal right.” — Susan B. Anthony

 

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill, we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.” — Plato

 

“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” — Lyndon B. Johnson