Sam Roberts Quotes

If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything if you don't vote.

Those who are outraged will vote.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

The public will vote if they have something important to vote for or against.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

I have always felt that for local offices in a small place, where everybody knows everyone else, the vote should be more a question of the man than one of party allegiance.

What matters is voting for where you live: Who's your mayor, who's your police chief, who represents you, your city council, your judges. That matters that you vote.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

The electorate is bored of talking about the past. They are much more interested in the future.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

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.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

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

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

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

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

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.