Voter Apathy Quotes

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The people are always worsted in an election.

It was white people who got Trump into office.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of us all.

We politicians are no great shakes, but you voters are no day at the beach.

I don't vote.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: T'is but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for multiple reasons. It will go down as one of the worst tragedies in American history. But he's not a dictator. This happened because we either allowed it or voted for it.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

Representative institutions are of little value, and may be a mere instrument of tyranny or intrigue, when the generality of electors [voters] are not sufficiently interested in their own government to give their vote, or, if they vote at all, do not bestow their suffrages on public grounds, but sell them for money, or vote at the beck of some one who has control over them

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right to choose and change their leaders. They don't realise that their votes are more important than their tweets or Facebook posts.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Popular elections are uncertain.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Brexit has given us the start of a conversation with people who perhaps haven't traditionally voted Conservative.