Famous quotes containing the words voting and/or compulsory:
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“If a girl’s a stewardess, she might as well forget it after twenty-six. They no longer have compulsory retirement, but the girls get into a rut at that age. A lot of them start showing the rough life they’ve lived.”
—Beryl Simpson, U.S. employment counselor; former airline reservationist. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)