Amy Klobuchar Quotes

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

[The President should] get a voting bill [from Congress] that will end the necessity for any more voting rights bills.

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

Somebody is going to be making the laws for this entire country. It could be you. Will it be you?

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

During my time in the Texas State Legislature, I witnessed firsthand the lack of evidence behind the rampant claims of voter fraud and the obstacles voters would face if the 2011 photo Voter ID were put in place.

Those who care about constitutional development should look beyond universal suffrage for the chief executive election and turn their sights to universal suffrage for Legco as well.

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

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

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

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

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.