Michael Che Quotes

If you don't vote, you don't count.

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

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.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

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.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Voting is a civic sacrament.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

Voting is super important, and your vote counts.

I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

The very act of voting is a political act.

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

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

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