Quotes About Participation

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.

Voter suppression takes different forms.

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

The ability for every legal, registered voter to participate in our democratic process should not be a partisan issue.

Every voter in Ukraine should have their say on the future they want for their country.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

The Fair Elections Act in its final form will require every single voter to produce ID showing who they are before they vote. Away from the noise in political Ottawa, everyone understands that this is common sense.

Our strength as a democracy relies on voter confidence.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.

End racial and ethnic gerrymandering, stop voter I.D. laws that seek to suppress voters of color, and make sure everyone can add their voice and their vote to this great democracy.

Since too few Americans go to the polls, I say what this country needs is a bobblehead election, where voters will get free bobblehead dolls of their choice when they show up and vote for president.

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

No voters will be left behind.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job.

Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process.

It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.