Grover Cleveland Quotes

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

You are not electing your parliamentarian or your MP to the corridors of power. You are electing them to the corridors of responsibility.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

If you ever doubt that the people are the boss in a democracy, run for office. Even the President is a hired hand.

You have come here by the sovereign will of the people to cooperate with me in carrying out the mandate recently pronounced at the polls.

If you give up on politics, you give up on democracy … and then we are absolute plutocracy.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.

I've entered politics the moment I marked my finger with the electoral voting mark. So I've entered politics, but I am not a politician. I am doing my duty as a citizen of India.