Steve Miller Quotes

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

If we can lower the voting age to nine, we are going to sweep the state.

More and more, the Negro vote is becoming the decisive power in National politics. The Negro vote is the balance of power in so many important big states that one almost has to have the Negro vote to win a Presidential election.

The reach of the individual campaigner doesn’t add up to diddly-squat in votes.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.

It is no exaggeration to say that undecided voters could go either way.

There is many a powerful voice in politics that represents but a small vote.

it is a universal practice in the popular elections in all these states, to give no legal consideration whatsoever to those who do not choose to vote, as against the effect of the votes of those, who do choose to vote. Hence it is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters, who choose to vote, that constitute the political power of the state.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

Political operatives don't tend to be existentialists. They do know, however, that if a supporter doesn't vote, then his or her opinion does not make a sound - or a difference.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

This is representative government, and Indians have very little political clout because for the most part, they don't vote. But white ranchers and farmers do vote.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.... By the turn of the century it'll be a 95 percent white Republican Party and a 99 percent black Democratic Party. That's not what we need.

They hustled the indifferent to the booths; they lent shawls and held babies; they carried the sick and dying to the polls on mattresses—and they won. May black shame fall upon the individual or the party who, having the trust of these women, ever betrays it.

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

Members of Congress will pay attention to members of their own districts.

Why should you care? Your side won.

The only reason we won this election is that money does not vote. You do!

It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.