I use this in my grade 10 civics class to address the problem of our embarassingly low voter turn out rate.

1. Vote.

4. "I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009 "There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk -- that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments." --George W. Bush, speaking at a private fundraiser, Houston, Texas, July 18, 2008 "And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place." --George W. Bush, Mesa, Arizona, May 27, 2008

5. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 "This thaw—took a while to thaw, it's going to take a while to unthaw."—Alexandria, La., Oct. 20, 2008 "I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2008

8. Victims of Sierra Leone civil war, voting in large numbers in the country's first election in May 2002 after the end of the war early the same year.

9. Despite mortar attacks and threats of suicide bombings, Iraqi's in the city of Barwana lined up in December 2005 for the first democratic election in almost 50 years.