Quotes About Participation

I think it's important to vote.

I'm glad I can't vote.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women's health care, you have to vote.

Whatever your political leaning, vote. This participation is vital. I feel the same way about issues like the space program, education, the military. The more the public focuses on these things, thinks and forms opinions, I think the better we are as a democracy.

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

I'm not a huge party girl. When I turned 18, the thing I was most excited about was being able to vote for the first time.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.