Electoral Participation Quotes

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Millions of people walk into the voting booth and vote for someone they like.

I say this. If you're going to disenfranchise all of those people, some of whom have never voted before and they're 50 years old and older, but if you're going to disenfranchise all of those people, Independents, Democrats - you know, we have a lot of Democrats coming over. We have a lot of Independents coming over.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

The poor don't vote all the time.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

It is essential that every eligible American voter has the ability and access to have their voice heard.

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

You have a voice, you have a vote. Use it.

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.

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.

Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter suppression. I believe that our campaign up to now has shown that we can create an enormous amount of enthusiasm from working people, from young people, who will get involved in the political process and which will drive us to a very large voter turnout.

I'm glad I can't vote.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

If one in four Dutch people saying they will vote for my party, it's ridiculous to say we're divisive or extreme.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

The danger of democracy has always been the danger of an electorate seized by passivity.

Women are citizens, children are citizens; but they do not exercise the elective franchise by virtue of their citizenship.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I've met in my whole life didn't really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.