Rudy Giuliani Quotes

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

I have never voted in my life.

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

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

The right to vote freely for the candidate of one’s choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government

You may elect whatever candidates you please to office, if you will allow me to select the candidates.

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

People don't vote parties. They vote individuals.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

The purpose is to give me a choice between two positions. If one party includes both positions, you have eliminated my right to choose .... In your determination to win everyone's vote, you could destroy the purpose of voting at all.

If the Election be made by the People in large Districts, there will be no danger of Demagogues.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.

Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

I'm hoping that college students and young professionals in general will pay very close attention to what is being said by both parties and all the candidates in the parties and pick the best person that best reflects the values that we all have.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

Elections are about the future.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.