Michelle Obama Quotes

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

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

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

You aren't just voting for the president. So many issues that affect your everyday life are decided locally on that ballot as well. So go get that god damn sticker. Your country needs you.

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

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 always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

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.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

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

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

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

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

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.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.