Patricia Arquette Quotes

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

Voting in this country has essentially been relegated to a very fledging group of election officials, who receive no training and operate on shoestring budgets on one hand, and political consultants whose job is to get their candidates elected on the other. And when you have that kind of scenario, it's really hard to describe yourself as a vibrant democracy. It's an embarrassment.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

This is one of the finest expressions of U. S. democracy at work.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

Citizens everywhere should be able to choose their leaders in climates free of fear.

Voter suppression is wrong even if it’s not racist. Any legislation that exists for the sole purpose of making it more difficult for an otherwise eligible person to vote is unethical. It’s straightforward cheating.

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.

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

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

I'm attorney general of the United States. I will not stand for - I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote.