Age Quote by Jess Phillips

Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

— Nancy Lublin

When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law…

— Shaun King

My ideal registration system would be an opt-out one, where every single person is registered once they turn 18. In Australia, I'm told, everyone…

— Sharon Salzberg

As long as voting is voluntary, young people will likely always vote at lower rates than their older counterparts.

— Jamelle Bouie

I am not sure that we would always want 16-year-olds to do all the things they can do. I am afraid that I do…

— Tony Blair

Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote?

— Mehdi Hasan

I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote.

— Anonymous

When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years…

— Audie Cornish

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

— Lucy Powell

I really wish everyone at the age of 18 would register and would vote.

— Michael Capuano

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary…

— Chen Shui-bian