Alice Paul Quotes

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.

We'll get out the [black] vote, but we need the white vote to win.

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.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

Why do we want dumb votes?

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

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.

I've reached out to independents and minorities that have traditionally voted Democrat but that are conservative on a lot of questions. We talk to young people, folks that typically aren't voting on a consistent basis. I'm proud of that.

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

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

Look, we are building out a large coalition program from Latinos for Trump, Black Voices for Trump, the faith-based, all kinds of different coalitions. That's an important thing for us to do. We need to turn out those voters.

I always vote. If I have the right, I'm going to vote.