Mike DeWine Quotes

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.

If there’s not a good feedback loop from the people to the government, and if you have rule of the bureaucrat — if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

The will of the people is the best law.

The will of the people shall be the law of the land

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

My government will respect the will of the people.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

The first line of the U. S. Constitution is “We the people” … in thriving democracies any time that any player takes a key decision that ignores or evades “We the people” he violates the spirit of democracy and condemns himself to illegitimacy.

Elections are the means we use to establish the will of the people in order to assure the rule of the people.

The people want to exercise power but what on earth would they do with it if it were given to them?

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

We may define a republic to be … a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

We the People' are the prime movers of the Republic.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth