Richard Cizik Quotes

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 you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.

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

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

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.

What we are seeing here is democracy in action.

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

Let the People Rule!

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

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 think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Politics is a good thing!

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

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

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.