Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes

Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.

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

Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

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

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about 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.

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.

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

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.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

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.

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.

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?

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

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.

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

Voting in Florida is like there’s some kind of goody in a box and you want to get it, but you’ve got to be persistent to get it.