Ram Nath Kovind Quotes

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Republican government loses half its value where the moral and social duties are ... negligently practiced.

Self government is the hardest thing that people can do other than fighting a civil war.

A government as good as the people.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons…. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this … work, that is its affair.

In a society pledged to self-government, it is never true that, in the long run, the security of the nation is endangered by the people.

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage…

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

Let us give our Republic not the best possible laws but the best which they will bear.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.