Donna Brazile Quotes

I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

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

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

The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the least worst every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the least worst gets worse.

My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about it.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.

We have to keep this new coalition of Trump voters engaged. And they represent Democrats, more independents, and people who hadn't voted for a long time because they lost their faith in government.

Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

We know we only have about half of our population that's 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.

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.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

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

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.

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