Alfred Maurice de Zayas Quotes

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

If you sit on the sidelines [and not vote], you are responsible for what happens.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don't be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

I'm going to support the candidate that the voters chose. The voters get to choose who's best to represent them.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

You might not be a big fan of politics, but you can still participate. All you need to do is vote for people you believe will work on these issues, and if they don't work the way they should, then it is your responsibility to call them, organize a town hall, and demand that they show up - hold them accountable.

Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.

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

Who the voter chooses to vote for is up to him or her, I would only request all eligible voters to go out and vote.

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

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.

I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.

Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views, even views that we profoundly disagree with. We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities.

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate the public about the potential for voting system reform, CVD can play a central role in a pro-democracy movement right here in America!

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.