Tucker Carlson Quotes

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

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

There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.

Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Voters memories will fade some.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

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.

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

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

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.

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

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

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