Carl Lewis Quotes

The most important thing is to tell people to go out and vote.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

I love election day, and I love to vote.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

Getting people to vote is the only way to break this tragic coalition in Congress.

If the voters vote for the same old thing, they are going to get the same old thing. If they want change, they are going to have to vote for change.

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

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 love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

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

The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

Democracy Is What You Make It!