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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
— Gary Hamel
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
— Walter Cronkite
Money has replaced the vote.
— Chris Hedges
We don't vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.
— Charles M. Blow
Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.
— Gloria Steinem
If voting doesn't change anything, it is just a drama of democracy.
— Shesh Nath Vernwal
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
— David T. Dellinger
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
— George Ayittey
Presidents are selected, not elected.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest threats to Democracy are comfort and apathy.
— T. Rafael Cimino
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.
— Andrew Napolitano
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
— Robert A. Heinlein
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
— H.L. Mencken
The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method. But
— G.K. Chesterton
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
— Howard Rheingold
The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
— Donald J. Trump
I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.
— Tucker Carlson
when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
Voting is the first duty of democracy.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]
— Noam Chomsky
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
— Tom Stoppard
In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.
— Ben Tolosa
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
— H.L. Mencken
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
— Sydney J. Harris
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
— Benjamin Franklin
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.
— Jane Bowles
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
— Bill Vaughan
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
— DeForest Soaries
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston S. Churchill