Charles M. Blow Quotes

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.

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 honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

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

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.

Hopeless people do not vote. They don’t think that they can change anything anymore.

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

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

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 miss politics.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.