Quotes About Democracy

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

There are illegal votes cast, and if we can tighten down, we should do it.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.

We understand that we're going to be outspent. But we still think we can win decisively because there's some things money can't buy. Among these are votes.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen!

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.

I was Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000, when he won a half-million more votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency.

The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president. We are not a democracy; we are a democratic republic. We have a representation system of government.

Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

You can't just chant 'Putin, go away!' because it doesn't make any sense at this point. We need to chant: 'Putin, give back our votes!'

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

The votes of 60,000 Floridians were not counted. The Court threw out all 60,00 votes. And that's what the newspapers around the country are counting now.

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.