Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I love election day, and I love to vote.

Your vote is your voice.

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

Elections matter and voting counts.

Exercise your right to vote.

We do have some people that have never voted before.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

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.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

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

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

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

I hold the opinion that it is lawful [for a Muslim] to participate in elections [in non-Islamic countries], as this may reduce suffering, and it is a way to choose the better among the available candidates. I believe participating in elections will, in any event, contribute to the reduction of evil and be a forum for countering bad policies and exposing their deficiencies, as well as being an opportunity to present proposals of a different kind that may help people.

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

The first step toward liberation is to use the power in hand ... and the power in hand is the vote.