Jason Kander Quotes

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Too many people are voting.

I don’t think as a general matter we should be encouraging people who don’t know anything about what they’re voting for to vote. That’s what Democrats do. Republicans shouldn’t follow suit on that.

Republicans need to stop complaining about blacks voting over 90% for Democrats. If they're not willing to compete in those neighborhoods, they will keep losing those voters.

Brexit has given us the start of a conversation with people who perhaps haven't traditionally voted Conservative.

In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

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.

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.

In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

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

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.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

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

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.

Most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.

Voters do not care about those kinds of things. Democrats get totally preoccupied with things that voters don't care about.

Democrats tend to always encourage people to vote – whether they are alive or dead.

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