Joaquin Castro Quotes

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

Political operatives don't tend to be existentialists. They do know, however, that if a supporter doesn't vote, then his or her opinion does not make a sound - or a difference.

I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.

Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.

Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

PACs represent thousands of little people.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: T'is but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

We all know that an angry electorate is a voting electorate.

Young Latinos have been telling me that they want to register to vote because of Donald Trump. Not because they want to vote for him but because they want to vote against him.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

Independents come back, usually right before an election. They tune out, and then they start refocusing.

In some states, the population is pretty low and if 5,000 kids vote, they could completely change the political atmosphere.

The Trump effect I think is very real, and I think people realize that. Everyone wants the president to come hold a rally in their state, in their area, and with very good reason.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

We don't just show up at election time; we're there full time.

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

Are people who want this kind of progressive change not turning up at polling stations? Are they not voting for progressive representatives? It's hard to put your finger on why we are where we are.