Byron Dorgan Quotes

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.

I used to be of the opinion that it didn't matter who you voted for. The world balanced itself out and kept on truckin'. Which is true, but politics are still important.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

I was very proud of you and your vote on the McCarran Bill. I wish I could say the same for myself.

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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

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

I know how illusory would be the belief that my vote determined anything; but nevertheless when I go to the polls I have a satisfaction in the sense that we are all engaged in a common venture.

The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity - and the obligation as a free people - to determine the trajectory of their country, of a political race.

In a multi-party democracy, many issues which you want - or do not want - will be raised. It is for us to make it relevant or not so relevant with our answers.

I want to say it's important that you vote, that you get out there.

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.

Not voting is disrespecting the best of what this nation stands for.

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.