Quotes About Democracy

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

I'm not here to say vote for one side of the other. But I'm here to say use your voice and vote. Our ancestors, our fathers and things like that fought for this right. You should take advantage of it and get out and vote and use it.

My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.

If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.