Bill Clinton Quotes

The Republicans had done two things in the last few years. They have made it easier to buy a gun and harder to vote.

I believe same-day registration has to be part of comprehensive reform of our voting systems that will also restore pre-clearance, shorten lines at polls, and ensure that no one who wants to vote is denied their constitutional right.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

How can we tell our children if we do not make reasonable efforts to count every vote.

We are the world’s greatest democracy but we are behind a number of other countries when it come to our voting processes… The good news is that most of these are problems are fixable.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

I've heard Donald Trump say some pretty unhinged things. I've heard them over and over and over again. But nothing is more dangerous to our democracy than his attacks on mail-in voting in the middle of a pandemic.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves and their children.

The voting business in the South will regulate itself.

If we're going to let irrational people vote, then we ought to let them own guns too.

We should make election day a national holiday.

Except it be to give protection against violence, I decline to interfere in any way with any Presidential election.

[The President should] get a voting bill [from Congress] that will end the necessity for any more voting rights bills.

Most men, being the ruled, not the rulers, want good government. If, without constraint, they choose bad government, it is by mistake

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

End racial and ethnic gerrymandering, stop voter I.D. laws that seek to suppress voters of color, and make sure everyone can add their voice and their vote to this great democracy.