Barack Obama Quotes

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

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

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: T'is but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

The vote has been costly. Prize it...understand what it means and what it can do for your country.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

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

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

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

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

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

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.

The principle issue in this election is whether or not you are prepared to do anything new.

I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

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

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

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.