Rosalynn Carter Quotes

The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting.

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

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

If you are a representative, and poor people don’t vote, you’re not going to pay particular attention to the needs of the poor.

The danger of democracy has always been the danger of an electorate seized by passivity.

One of the things about the electoral system in the United States, in general, is that it is very susceptible to class. In poorer neighborhoods you are going to have a lower turnout. This country is very much a middle-class country. When you're talking about poor or working-class people, there are not many vehicles for mobilizing them.

Hopeless people do not vote. They don’t think that they can change anything anymore.

The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the least worst gets worse.

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.

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.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

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

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

I hope no one in any part of this country will sit out any election. It’s about as unpatriotic think that anyone can do.

Political discussions fly over the heads of those who have no votes, and are not endeavoring to acquire them.