Nina Turner Quotes

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

Voting is designed for old people.

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

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

When push comes to shove, people vote alone.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

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

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

No people ever learned how to vote except by voting.

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.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

Democracy does not have to be a blood sport …

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary.