Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

You can't vote your hates; you've got to vote your hopes.

Democracy Is What You Make It!

We need to learn democracy. Everything takes time.

America must be a nation in which its multiracial people are partners in power.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

I'm going to take part in the elections, not just as a candidate but as a mouthpiece for those who can't become candidates.

The truth is, our democracy is stronger when more people participate and when everyone's views are heard. More participation not only leads to a more representative government, but also more thoughtful policies that better leverage the strengths - and better address the challenges - of the American mosaic.

Our citizens must feel they are part and parcel of this country. This is essential.

I want people to be able to give their voice.

Every Indian has a right to take part in politics. Why not me?

In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.