Lynn Martin Quotes

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

If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

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

It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.

I do vote. I have voted ever since I've been eligible to vote.

It's about going to where your voters are.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

All the evidence shows that establishing the habit of voting as early as possible is a vital tool in making sure that it's maintained throughout people's lives.

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

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.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

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.

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.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.