Barack Obama Quotes

I want young people to be involved, and I especially want young people to vote.

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

Young people are the key to this election.

Too many people are voting.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

We do have some people that have never voted before.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There's an assortment of elections around the EU. We're very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

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.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

Real change begins with citizens registering to vote, becoming active and engaged in their communities, and casting their ballot at every election for those who will fairly and accurately represent them.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Voting is super important, and your vote counts.

I cannot have any apprehensions during elections.

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

I've reached out to independents and minorities that have traditionally voted Democrat but that are conservative on a lot of questions. We talk to young people, folks that typically aren't voting on a consistent basis. I'm proud of that.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

Elections are about the voters who vote in them.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

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

I voted in elections - probably like a lot of people - but I didn't really pay that much attention to politics. But there was something that happened in 2016, and I think people were reawakened in this country.

We need to vote people out of office that are perpetuating issues affecting young people, like gun violence.