Anthony Kennedy Quotes

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

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.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

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

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

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

All of us today are learning democracy. We are only now forming a political culture.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

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

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

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.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

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

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

Democracy is not a spectator sport.