Rosario Dawson Quotes

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

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

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

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

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.

Voter turnout comes down to organizing, educating, activating.

Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

It's about going to where your voters are.

If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.