Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

In this quip, Fields turns civic participation into a comic expression of misanthropy and skepticism. The line suggests that voting is less an act of hopeful endorsement than a defensive maneuver—choosing the option perceived as least harmful. Its humor depends on blunt profanity (“Hell”) and the reversal of the expected motive for voting, aligning with Fields’s public persona as a curmudgeonly, anti-sentimental observer of human folly. Read more broadly, it captures a perennial strain of political disillusionment: the sense that elections often offer imperfect choices, so the voter’s agency is exercised chiefly through rejection rather than enthusiasm.