Ali Khamenei Quotes

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

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

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

I hope no one in any part of this country will sit out any election. It’s about as unpatriotic think that anyone can do.

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

It goes without saying that it's important to vote.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

We do have some people that have never voted before.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.

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

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote.