Richard Edelman Quotes

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

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.

I love election day, and I love to vote.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

Working people vote!

I never ever paid attention to any election.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

People are what this election is all about.

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

I hold the opinion that it is lawful [for a Muslim] to participate in elections [in non-Islamic countries], as this may reduce suffering, and it is a way to choose the better among the available candidates. I believe participating in elections will, in any event, contribute to the reduction of evil and be a forum for countering bad policies and exposing their deficiencies, as well as being an opportunity to present proposals of a different kind that may help people.

So what you do is you just reach up there and grab that lever [in the voting booth] and say, "All the way with LBJ.

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.

You damned fools. You can either vote for me for mayor or you can go to hell

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

We need to say to everyone on Election Day, 'Those of you who helped make this a good day, you need to go out and help us finish the job.'

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

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

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.