Ralph Nader Quotes

To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

In a close election no one is going to pass up an opportunity to mix politics with a little sex.

It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy

There once was a time when people chose their congressmen. Now congressmen choose their people.

Its [the Bush family’s] sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution

The Rules Committee is the place that Democracy comes to die.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Many of you may remember that I supported Mike Huckabee for president in 2008. He was doing great, beating out Mitt Romney, when some shenanigans were pulled by bringing in Fred Thompson as a candidate to compete against Mike for the evangelical and conservative votes in South Carolina.

When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do.

It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.

Voter suppression in Florida in 2000 helped put Republican George W Bush into office despite losing the popular vote and the targeting of state legislative elections in 2010 enabled Republicans to gerrymander states out of Democrat reach.

We have to end political gerrymandering in this country. We have to end it.

Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.

Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?

The Republican playbook is voter suppression.

Republicans in the South... are trying to find ways, not so much to block black and brown people from voting, but to block black and brown people from getting people they want elected, which is a far more subtle thing to do.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.

This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump's White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging poll data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.

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