Christine Todd Whitman Quotes

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.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

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

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.

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

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

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

The way to address our grievances is to engage in that most revolutionary of activities—voting.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

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

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.