Tom Brokaw Quotes

I remember feeling proud as I cast my first vote in Chicago in the 1972 presidential election - President Richard Nixon versus Senator George McGovern. Finally, I could participate. There was so much at stake.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

I love election day, and I love to vote.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Working people vote!

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Political elections are not life and death.

The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic.

I hold the opinion that it is lawful [for a Muslim] to participate in elections [in non-Islamic countries], as this may reduce suffering, and it is a way to choose the better among the available candidates. I believe participating in elections will, in any event, contribute to the reduction of evil and be a forum for countering bad policies and exposing their deficiencies, as well as being an opportunity to present proposals of a different kind that may help people.

What we are seeing here is democracy in action.

So what you do is you just reach up there and grab that lever [in the voting booth] and say, "All the way with LBJ.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Your vote is your voice.

More Americans bowl than vote.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.