Tom Perez Quotes

Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

Institutionalizing dissent in our agencies moves us toward a healthier democracy and helps fulfill our founders' vision.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

Every Indian has a right to take part in politics. Why not me?

Voting rights are constitutional rights.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

The right of election is the very essence of the English constitution.

Vote Democratic. The party for you, not just the few.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

This is one of the finest expressions of U. S. democracy at work.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.