Walt Whitman Quotes

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

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

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

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

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

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

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

There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the job.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

I sort of feel we have to owe some respect to the process and owe some respect to the electorate and the people who voted Donald Trump, on the assumption that they have something to teach us.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

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

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

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

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

In our democracy, political parties have to raise funds to campaign and put their policies to the electorate, and as a proud supporter of the Labour Party, I am happy to be in a position where I can make a contribution to its ongoing work.

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

If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.