P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

If the Gods Wanted Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Better Candidates

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

Voting is designed for old people.

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

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 don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

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

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

If voting could change anything, they would have made it illegal.

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

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: T'is but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

A growing number of people in this country do not believe that it makes a real difference who is elected President of the United States.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.