Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.

We should make election day a national holiday.

Public confidence in the elective process is the foundation of public confidence in government.

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

This election is not about me. It is about you.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

Whether you're Democrat or Republican... you want everybody who's eligible to vote to vote, and that's how you want to win elections.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

Have election day on a weekend so that people can vote.

Democrats tend to always encourage people to vote – whether they are alive or dead.

You've got to jump through all kinds of hoops to vote in America.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

Registration is a necessary—but not sufficient—condition for voting.