Andrew Gillum Quotes

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

We have no standard by which to measure the disaster that may be brought upon us by ignorance and vice in the citizens when joined to corruption and fraud in the suffrage.

Why do we want dumb votes?

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

If we don't register and don't vote, national leaders will not be aware of our point of view.

Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

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.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

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

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.