Conan O'Brien Quotes

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

We need more spending on elections. Most people don’t even know who their congressman is—don’t even know the name or their party… [There] is a lack of relevant information.

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

What's sad is that we can have a reality-television performer for president without incorporating the other aspects of reality television - like voting and voter engagement.

We don't just show up at election time; we're there full time.

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

Very few [Americans] ... take an active part in politics, however interested they may be in public affairs.

Why do we want dumb votes?

In a new democracy, the most important election is the second election.

The Pulse of Democracy

Rock the Vote

It's too bad that such crowds can't be turned out in the United States.

You’ve got the strongest hand in the world, the hand that marks the ballot, the hand that pulls the voting lever. Use it, will ya? Use it!”

The lack of political attention to candidates and issues, history has shown us, is a sure-fire way to end up left out of the policy debates altogether. We need to continue to educate our elected officials and candidates for office on who we are, what we need and why they should stand in solidarity with us.

Sometime between elections we should concentrate on doing something.

People were asleep, but I think they're waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they've got to get involved.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.

Until we actually have people going out and voting, don't ever count anybody out.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Presidential election campaigns offer a unique opportunity to educate the public and engage in an intelligent dialogue on issues of national importance.