Quotes About Voting

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Most people are generally satisfied with their representative.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it passed legislatively. If we had a true representative democracy, 90 percent of our elected officials would want universal background checks.

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

I was on the elections committee in my last session in the state House of Representatives.

When people go to vote still in Britain, they will look at their local representatives, but I don't think there is a sort of cult of personality politics. Obviously, they want to know who the leader is for each party, but I think there is a lot of identification with their local candidates.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic.

I'm a Republican.

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Democrats cluster in cities, and Republicans don't.

The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.

Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

The work that Rock The Vote does is incredible. So it's cool to collab with such an iconic organization.

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

When an illegal vote is cast for president, that illegal vote is also cast for a city councilman.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.