George F. Will Quotes

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

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing. And you want those voices heard.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Many people in the UN vote and then go home where nobody votes.

In a democracy, if the people don’t vote, the policies are made by others….The major decisions of our society are going to be made by our elected officials, like it or not.

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Having elected a government, we will be best advised to let it govern and to let it speak for us as it will in the councils of the nations.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.