Winston Churchill Quotes

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

A growing number of people in this country do not believe that it makes a real difference who is elected President of the United States.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for president. One hopes it is the same half

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

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.

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

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

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

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Why do we want dumb votes?

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

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're going to get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

We made a mistake lowering the voting age to 18. I think it happened basically out of guilt.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

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

Having a representative democracy requires the confidence of the voters in the system. And if voters lose confidence in the system they can make some very bad decisions.

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote.

Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.