Jess Phillips Quotes

If we can lower the voting age to nine, we are going to sweep the state.

To me, the most compelling reason for lowering the voting age [to 18] is that American politics needs the infusion that younger voting would give it.

We made a mistake lowering the voting age to 18. I think it happened basically out of guilt.

Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote?

Allowing young people to vote for the first time while they are still at school would allow them to engage with the political process, as well as the relevant issues, with the support of teachers to help them make informed choices.

All kids should vote - it gives them the opportunity to whinge afterwards because you can't complain if you haven't voted.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

I have never voted in my life.

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

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

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Rock the Vote

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

If you don’t vote, you don’t count.

Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a privilege and responsibility that should not be abdicated.

Voting is great, but it's not an accomplishment. It's a responsibility.

Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.