Zephyr Teachout Quotes

I don't want to tell anybody who to vote for; I'd rather people just do their homework and make sure they vote for the person that they feel like is best to run our country.

I just have lot of faith in the minds of Americans to make the right voting decisions.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.

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

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

I'm one of those goobers who comes out of the polling place actually wearing the 'I VOTED' sticker on my jacket.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

People vote for their dreams and fears.

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

If you don’t vote, you don’t count.