Adam Carolla Quotes

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

The right of election is the very essence of the English constitution.

In the democratic forms of government the operation of universal suffrage tends toward the selection of the average man for public office rather than the man qualified by birth, education, and integrity.... From a racial point of view, it will inevitably increase the preponderance of the lower types and cause a corresponding loss of efficiency in the community as a whole

We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.

The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.

The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy.

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.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

The conception of political equality can mean only one thing—one person–one vote.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

One man shall have one vote.

There is more to the right to vote than the right to mark a piece of paper and drop it in a box or the right to pull a lever in a voting booth .... It also includes the right to have the vote counted at full value without dilution or discount.

Proportional representation, I think, is fundamentally counter-democratic.

We do not pretend to show that universal suffrage is an evil. Let its advocates show it to be a good.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

As Republicans try to trample on our most sacred freedoms, Democrats will do everything we can to end discrimination and protect the one right that preserves all others - the right to vote.

The right to vote is the easiest of all rights to grant.

Every vote matters.

Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many.

It is fundamentally important in our system of government that every American be given the opportunity to vote, regardless of who they are, where they live, and what their race or national origin may be.