Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

Never you mind about the country, or about the state, or the city, or about the ward. You take care of your precinct.

The more responsibility you can move toward local government, the better of you're going to be … City governments do better than their State governments in terms of accountability.

Many people in the UN vote and then go home where nobody votes.

In this country, you don't have any democracy really. You have the right to elect but not to select. For example, here's two people: you get to vote for one of them. But you didn't choose in the first place either of them. That's not democracy…

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Each county elector makes his own rules

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

What matters is voting for where you live: Who's your mayor, who's your police chief, who represents you, your city council, your judges. That matters that you vote.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.

I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.

Ultimately, it is the people who judge, through elections, whether someone governs well or not. It's not up to other politicians to define and determine our colleagues.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.