Political Quotes

“College presidents have a responsibility. Most colleges, when I was going to school, we had what you call a convocation, and freshmen had freshmen seminars, something they had to attend every week. Every student had to attend convocation. You attended convocation. What would happen if a college president said, OK, at this convocation, for the first 15 minutes, I want every student to be registered to vote; pass out the cards, not influencing students as to how to vote or how to register in terms of party affiliation, but if you choose to register, you have 15 minutes to do so right now. I passed a bill in Louisiana where registration, college registration, will incorporate voter registration, when the registrars or voters office has to be present during college registration on college campuses in the State of Louisiana; a way to register students to vote when they register for college. You worked when you were a kid on a piece, and I remember talking to you, I was at Southern and you were at A&T, talking about registering students to vote when they graduate from high school; if they graduated with a diploma in one hand and the voter registration card in the other. I remember that, and that worked. I went back to Louisiana and I tried to institute the same thing. I said, OK, when you graduate from high school, you have to have a diploma in one hand.”