Voter Engagement Quotes

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

If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

President Trump's coalition clearly involves creating massive turnout in areas where he's popular.

I think if Hillary Clinton had come on 'Fox & Friends,' she would have gotten so many more votes, especially if she had done it over and over and over.

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

The hardest thing about a presidential election is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.

The threshold by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In the words of the League of Women Voters, they are a fraud being perpetrated on the American public.

Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair's-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

We need clean candidates. Party A puts up a candidate and he is terribly corrupt. Party B puts up a candidate who is even more corrupt. There is no choice. So I have the Clean Candidate Campaign.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.

Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.

All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

Democrats are very good at governing. When it comes to messaging, I'm not too sure about.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.