Herbert Hoover Quotes

The vitality of democracy depends on popular knowledge of complex questions.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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.

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

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

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

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

Recognition of the principle ‘one man, one vote’ as a constitutional one redeems the promise of self-governance by affirming the essential dignity of every citizen to equal participation in the democratic process.

Why do we want dumb votes?

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both ... And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

This election is not about me. It is about you.

Having everybody voting to avoid a £25 fine is no way to solve public apathy.