Ralph Nader Quotes

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

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.

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

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.

When politics is interesting, people go 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.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Democracy Is What You Make It!

For America to work, Americans have to participate. If they don’t pay attention, they’re going to get screwed.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

We must demonstrate our power by exercising our right to vote.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.

Voting is super important, and your vote counts.

Democracy is something you have to participate in.

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.