Roger Simon Quotes

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

The principle issue in this election is whether or not you are prepared to do anything new.

The way to address our grievances is to engage in that most revolutionary of activities—voting.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

It's important that we vote, because this is how we can bring about change and bring about reform, and, honestly, I don't see Donald Trump, anything that he's saying to be effective or comprehensive. Instead of really uniting our country - we are the United States of America - he is dividing us.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

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.