George Washington Quotes

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

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

Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing. And you want those voices heard.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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When somebody contributes to a campaign, that is democracy at work.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Your vote is your voice.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

Democracy does not have to be a blood sport …

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

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.

I have always said that I believe in the people's right to vote on an issue.

I like the idea of a Citizen's Assembly that has been used in Ireland, providing a forum in which to discuss the nuances of an issue before deciding if and how it should be put to the people.

Public opinion must be heard.

I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.