John Shimkus Quotes

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

I was very proud of you and your vote on the McCarran Bill. I wish I could say the same for myself.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The American people's vote can't be bought.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

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

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

I am not in politics to make more money.

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Elections, like economic competition, produce winners, but these are not necessarily the best candidates, morally speaking.