Christie Hefner Quotes

A lot of times, elections are lost, and the hope of the public is lost because they don't turn out.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

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

The public will vote if they have something important to vote for or against.

The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the least worst gets worse.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

Turnout is good for the system.

If we don't register and don't vote, national leaders will not be aware of our point of view.

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.

I have never voted in my life.

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

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.

The danger of democracy has always been the danger of an electorate seized by passivity.

We should make election day a national holiday.

I hope no one in any part of this country will sit out any election. It’s about as unpatriotic think that anyone can do.

If the Gods Wanted Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Better Candidates

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

Elections are always about turnout.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

Democrats believe that when more people vote, it's not just good for our party; it's good for democracy.

Remember, I'm the guy who didn't want the referendum - I wouldn't have had it if I'd been prime minister. But you have to respect how people voted because this was partly about political alienation, so if the response to political alienation is to ignore it, that's a recipe for more political alienation.

I am actually not that much into voting.

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.