Emma Gonzalez Quotes

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.

Political involvement is more than a game.

If you sit on the sidelines [and not vote], you are responsible for what happens.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

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.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Elections are always about turnout.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

The very right to vote imposes on me the duty to instruct myself in public affairs however little influence my voice may have in them.

It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

Turnout is good for the system.