Quotes About Democracy

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1.

Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter access in the legislatures of the 50 states.

Voting rights are preservative of all other rights.

We need to, in my opinion, to restore the full strength of the federal Voting Rights Act.

There's a lot that can and should be done, not just in terms of elections administration with respect to the voting rights, but the protections of voters themselves.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

With the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, our Commonwealth is creating a model for how states can provide comprehensive voter protections that strengthen democracy and the integrity of our elections.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

We passed the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, which restores and builds on key provisions of the 1965 federal Voting Rights Act that was gutted by the United States Supreme Court. Voting is fundamental to our democracy, and this legislation is a model for how states can ensure the integrity of elections and protect the sacred right to vote.

Voting rights are about the foundation of our democracy.

Voting rights is not just some other issues alongside other issues, it gets to the heart of who we are in the first place - a democracy!

I believe in bipartisanship. But when it comes to something as fundamental as voting rights, I just have to ask, bipartisanship at what cost?

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.