Robert Orben Quotes

Voting is a civic sacrament.

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.

In a multi-party democracy, many issues which you want - or do not want - will be raised. It is for us to make it relevant or not so relevant with our answers.

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

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

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.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

In our democracy, political parties have to raise funds to campaign and put their policies to the electorate, and as a proud supporter of the Labour Party, I am happy to be in a position where I can make a contribution to its ongoing work.

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.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

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

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

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

We're all candidates all the time. Claude Pepper is eighty seven, and he's worried about redistricting in 1992.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.

I do think you need to listen to the voters.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.

I didn't think politics had anything to do with our daily lives. I had never voted. Well boy I know now.