Will Rogers Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

When push comes to shove, people vote alone.

When voter get a chance to vote, they vote their hopes rather than their fears.

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections.

Predicting voter turnout is not hard, it’s impossible.

In order for a corrupt system to prevail, numerous other rights are likely to be restricted in the areas of political participation and access to justice. The need for the corrupt to protect themselves and their cronies undermines the electoral process, leads to intimidation and manipulation of the press and compromises the independence of the judiciary …. Especially disturbing is the impunity that covers up so many of these acts.

The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaign and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

Representative democracy is a remarkably blunt instrument. Hundreds of issues are bundled together at every election, yet the vote tends to swing on just one or two of them.

I believe young voters will either vote for Obama or not vote at all. So the problem is not Obama the problem is the system. If you think about how mess up this country is most folk really don’t have choices.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

It was just revealed that Donald Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over 20 years. Or in simpler terms, Trump hasn't voted in primary elections in over three wives.

Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.

Popularity is not the single determining factor, as we all know, in how people vote.

[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.

We do have some people that have never voted before.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.