Ari Melber Quotes

Whether or not your candidate wins, the crucial importance is the integrity of our voting system. You have to engage in the process in order to change it.

Local politics is just as important as national - and often easier to influence.

It's about grass-roots campaigning, meeting voters face-to-face, and above all, listening to what they have to say.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.

The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

A political campaign should be an education for both the voters and the candidates.

New thoughts excite The voter's dread. Be sure you're trite, And go ahead.

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

We need more participation, so when I see someone like Trump, I go, 'You know something? Good for him'. I may not support him, but let him run.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

I've been impressed with Rick Guzman and his commitment to the residents of Aurora since I first met him many years ago.

Put a lawn sign on your lawn; go door to door for your candidate. Register people to vote. There's so much we can do through our voices and time. That's what flips elections.

The most powerful thing in politics is voter-to-voter contact. People take in ideas and formulate opinions by contact with other people they perceive to be trustworthy - other voters, people from their communities.

Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.

I personally went canvassing door to door in a local race when I was in high school and thought it was kind of hilarious how worked up people got over such small stakes elections.

I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.

Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong.