Rand Paul Quotes

Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

You know, I've had so many conversations over the last several months with people who have come up to me and said that they're going to go vote for the first time because they want to vote against Donald Trump because he's scaring them.

People are motivated to vote early, to defend core American values.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Rock the Vote

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

Political operatives don't tend to be existentialists. They do know, however, that if a supporter doesn't vote, then his or her opinion does not make a sound - or a difference.

I voted in elections - probably like a lot of people - but I didn't really pay that much attention to politics. But there was something that happened in 2016, and I think people were reawakened in this country.

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

We don't just show up at election time; we're there full time.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.

I always feel we have to work both outside and inside of our existing institutions, so we have to really be careful about who we vote for and examine carefully our institutions and what they're meant to do and how they're being violated. I also think we need movements from below that oppose what Trump administration and administrations like it are doing to ordinary people.