Lucy Powell Quotes

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

A political campaign should be an education for both the voters and the candidates.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

Every election is a matter of definition.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Compared to this [the transition] the election was easy.

Rock the Vote

Many people in the UN vote and then go home where nobody votes.

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.

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

The only reason we won this election is that money does not vote. You do!

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

I do think you need to listen to the voters.

Voting is a fundamental right in our democracy.

I always vote. If I have the right, I'm going to vote.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

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