Political Quotes

“Absolutely, and you know this whole voter registration among young people is really catching on. I do not know if you are familiar with the shows called the Tom Journal Morning Show. It is a show that is on every morning on many of the syndicated shows on many of the ministations all across America. I mean I was sitting in--I was driving in the car the other day, and I heard Tom Journal that morning talking about how people, particularly young people, need to register to vote, and he started this thing: You know, register five people to vote and call their names in and I will announce them over the air. And people were actually registering people to vote, and he was announcing the names over the air. I just think that is so encouraging because a lot of people do not wake up in the morning, young people for example, who is about to go to a biology lab, who is on a college campus, not thinking about voting per se, interested in the future, interested in the outcome of elections, but not registered. As you stated, many college students, when they leave from Illinois and go to Los Angeles to register for college, they may be registered back home, but the likelihood of them going back to Illinois from California to vote on election day is not all that great. And so it is incumbent upon them to register to vote at that college, at that university because they are going to be there 4 to 5 years on the average. So that is really home.”