Jeff Miller Quotes

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

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

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

Get out and vote. If you can't vote, then register other people to vote. Get people to the polls; make sure that people who need to vote can vote.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

I have never voted in my life.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

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

Politicians, even if their motives are not of the purest, come much nearer performing their duties than the so-called "good" citizens who stay at home [on Election Day.]

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

You've got to jump through all kinds of hoops to vote in America.

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.

I don’t think as a general matter we should be encouraging people who don’t know anything about what they’re voting for to vote. That’s what Democrats do. Republicans shouldn’t follow suit on that.

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 want to say it's important that you vote, that you get out there.

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

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

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.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

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

What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.