Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Many people in the UN vote and then go home where nobody votes.

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

If you don't vote, you don't count.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

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.

When push comes to shove, people vote alone.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

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.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

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

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

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

There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.

If you don't register to vote, politicians don't really care about you: politicians aren't really caring about what you have to say, what you have to do, anything.

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

Voting is super important, and your vote counts.