Voter Turnout Quotes

• The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Government, People, Political

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didnt have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

  Conrad Burns

  Iraq, Voters, Election

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

  Al Gore

  Funny, People, Political

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• Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

  Andrew Young

  Hands, Land, Cards

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• We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

  Joan Blades

  Presidential, Voters, Election

  "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

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• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  Jeff Miller

  Years, Presidential, Political

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• Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

  Bernie Sanders

  Voters, Republican, Lows

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Law, Voters, Voter Id

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• The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Reality, Years

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Minnesota, Voters

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" With David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.

  Keith Ellison

  Voters, Lowest

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've heard - when I first started, people were saying, "You know if it ends up being Trump against [Hillary] Clinton, it's going to be the highest-rated debate in the history of television - or, show in the history of television. And they also said something else. It'll probably be the greatest voter turnout in the history of this country. That could very well be.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Television

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Class, People

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate. We win governors' chairs up and down the line. So I believe if you want to retain the White House, if you want to see Democrats do well across the board, I think our campaign is the one that creates the large voter turnout and helps us win.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Thinking, Winning

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Winning, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

  Bernie Sanders

  Voters, Pundits, Shock

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fate, Cities, America

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• A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Long, Presidential

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