Quotes About Voting

Only 36 percent of Americans could pass a multiple-choice civics test of the kind that is administered to immigrants seeking to become citizens.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Democracy is not a spectator sport

Change will not take place without political participation.

What we do know is that more than fifty years after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the struggle for the right to vote continues.

the Fifteenth Amendment

Lower the Voting Age to Five. See youth apathy magically turn around when they know they have a real stake in their future; and get to vote for their school boards, and why not their teachers?

Two years outside the country, and not much had changed. Still, more people watched the Super Bowl than voted; budgets for defense outweighed education, medicine, and everything else combined....

If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.

Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!

We all need to be reminded that democracy isn't just voting for the president every four years and then trusting him to fix things. Democracy is about getting together with your community to think together about your future.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.