Denise Dresser Quotes

I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

Votes are something that you earn.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

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

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

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.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

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

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.