Laura Secor Quotes

Your vote will give the government a legitimacy it does not deserve.

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

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.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

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

To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

Handcuffs. If you believe I am a common criminal for voting, then handcuff me.

When voter get a chance to vote, they vote their hopes rather than their fears.

Chavez is not Chavez. Chavez is the people! And the people will not be stopped.

The extension of suffrage will not forbid the supremacy of intelligence.

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

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote.

We are the world’s greatest democracy but we are behind a number of other countries when it come to our voting processes… The good news is that most of these are problems are fixable.

Where annual elections end, there tyranny begins..

It goes without saying that it's important to vote.

Many people would vote for me, I'm quite sure.

The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself.