Voter Participation Quotes

As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.

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

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

It is true that in some states the only important vote is the primary, when you choose between different members of the same party. In these states, where our two-party system usually does not function, it is important that everyone vote in the primaries. Elsewhere throughout the country, citizens should vote both in the primaries and in the final election, for where the two-party system works they will always have a choice between party candidates.

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.

The only reason we won this election is that money does not vote. You do!

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.

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

Political competition is the heartbeat of democracy.

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.

I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.

There are different ways to get responsive government leaders but one of the more effective ways is to have them democratically elected.

The left patronizes minorities, pretends they don't know how to vote correctly, pretends they don't have IDs, when in fact they want their votes to count, and participate in greater numbers when you assure them their votes will count.

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

In my primary, I only won by 23 votes in that one, so every vote really does count, and I want to make sure I get as many as I possibly can.

The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

They hustled the indifferent to the booths; they lent shawls and held babies; they carried the sick and dying to the polls on mattresses—and they won. May black shame fall upon the individual or the party who, having the trust of these women, ever betrays it.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.