Earl Warren Quotes

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.

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.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

To say that sovereignty vests with the people, and that they have not a right to instruct and control their representative is absurd to the last degree.

Senators here were elected to the Senate and not to the caucus ... great questions of this sort should be debated in public and decided in public.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

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

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.