Eric Schneiderman Quotes

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

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

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

We must demonstrate our power by exercising our right to vote.

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 think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

Voting is great, but it's not an accomplishment. It's a responsibility.

Get out and vote. If you can't vote, then register other people to vote. Get people to the polls; make sure that people who need to vote can vote.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

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 don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.

Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

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

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.