Christopher Shays Quotes

To me, the most compelling reason for lowering the voting age [to 18] is that American politics needs the infusion that younger voting would give it.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

In general, I think that not voting is a perfectly honorable and civic-minded course in an election with two options that you consider unacceptable. I think casting a protest vote is a totally acceptable course. I have done both in my life.

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

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.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

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.

New thoughts excite The voter's dread. Be sure you're trite, And go ahead.

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for president. One hopes it is the same half

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

If people don't like me, I insist they can vote for someone else. The only stupid thing we can do is to stay at home. I don't know a single election in the world that was changed by staying at home.

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

Voting is great, but it's not an accomplishment. It's a responsibility.

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

Voting statistics for younger voters is pathetic.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

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