Quotes About Engagement

We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race. We're designed to be in community, to volunteer, to vote, to raise our kids. And I think the more inputs and investments we can give in people to do those things, the better off we are as a community.

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

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.

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 I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

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

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

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

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.

You have to be educated to vote.

I vote and I do jury duty.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

If you don't vote, you don't count.

I think it's important to vote.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

Even if politicians spew confusing, convoluted jargon, these people are still meant to represent me, and the only way that happens is if I stay informed and vote.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.