Eileen Myles Quotes

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

The way to address our grievances is to engage in that most revolutionary of activities—voting.

There is nothing wrong with this country that a good election can’t fix.

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

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

I am actually not that much into voting.

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

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

I used to be of the opinion that it didn't matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin'. Which is true, but politics are still important.

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

Those who are outraged will vote.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

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.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.