Michelle Obama Quotes

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

You've got to lose a few [elections] before you learn what the American system is all about.

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

Every vote matters.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

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

In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

You may elect whatever candidates you please to office, if you will allow me to select the candidates.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

Have election day on a weekend so that people can vote.

We already have term limits. They’re called elections.

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

We should make election day a national holiday.

When somebody contributes to a campaign, that is democracy at work.