Leopoldo Lopez Quotes

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Every vote matters.

Voters deserve - and they indeed expect - a good debate on the issues.

I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

I do think you need to listen to the voters.

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.

If we don't register and don't vote, national leaders will not be aware of our point of view.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

It's heartening when people hear for the first time that their vote really matters.

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

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

We should make election day a national holiday.