Quotes About Democracy

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.

Donald Trump went through the process, he earned the vote, and I am not in support of overturning the will of the voters.

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.

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.

A majority of voters in a majority of constituencies voted to leave the E.U. I wish it wasn't so.

The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

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

Politicians should not be trying to pick their voters. The voters get to pick who represents them.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

The Labour party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen.

Italy is a free country. Its voters decide freely.

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

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 have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.

If you're going to be a big tent party as we are, and you're going to help elect democrats who have generated support in their communities... the will of those voters is the will that we must respect.

Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and suspicious of democratic institutions.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

Politicians used to be leaders. Now they follow voters, desperate for a tick in a box.

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

No voters will be left behind.