{"quotes":[{"text":"You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!","author":"Charles M. Schulz","tags":["charles-m-schulz","charlie-brown","decision-making","election","politics","sally-brown","sellout","voting","voting-rights"],"id":1505,"author_id":"Charles+M.+Schulz"},{"text":"The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["conscience","preachers","voting"],"id":2390,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"I am not for the left or the right, but for what is right over the wrong. I am not an elephant or a donkey, but a lion that stands only with Truth and my conscience.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["conscience","democrats","elections","political-parties","republicans","truth","voting"],"id":2978,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","election","elections","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","major","majority","man","minor","minority","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","politics","single-man","vote","voting","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":2991,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.","author":"Loretta Lynch","tags":["children","school","voting "],"id":4531,"author_id":"Loretta+Lynch"},{"text":"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["life","daily","voting "],"id":6848,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"When we don’t care about what our government is doing, we are also saying to the next generation that we are not interested in the possible burdens that we are passing on to them.","author":"Rob Parker","tags":["inheritance","legacy","voting"],"id":8309,"author_id":"Rob+Parker"},{"text":"As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every four years; a Congress with a 99% incumbency rate; a Supreme Court comprised of nine politically appointed judges whose only oversight is the icy scythe of Death -- all these reveal a system fully capable of maintaining itself. But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.","author":"Jon Stewart","tags":["congress","democracy","humor","politics","supreme-court","voting"],"id":10583,"author_id":"Jon+Stewart"},{"text":"There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.","author":"Eddie Whitlock","tags":["politics","republicans","voting"],"id":11923,"author_id":"Eddie+Whitlock"},{"text":"Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.","author":"William Earl Maxwell","tags":["corruption","government","suffrage","voting"],"id":16246,"author_id":"William+Earl+Maxwell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":152,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}