Hillary Clinton Quotes

I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.

There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

I want young people to be involved, and I especially want young people to vote.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

We need to get young people involved in the running of this country.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

Elections are about the future.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Young people are the key to this election.

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.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

Democracy Is What You Make It!

Forget the polls and remember the people.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're going to get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

In a Democracy, look how many … many powerful Orators there are with the people.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

Liberal democracies have their own means of holding leaders accountable. They are called elections.

If the voters vote for the same old thing, they are going to get the same old thing. If they want change, they are going to have to vote for change.

I didn’t understand. In a democracy, the people have to be entertained.

Elections are fundamentally about the future and not about the past.