Pierre Trudeau Quotes
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott. The Essential Trudeau. Edited by Ron Graham, McClelland & Stewart, 1998, p. 34.
Chief legal officer of a Dutch town. He wanted to have a plebiscite in each town on major issues before the assembly so as to instruct the representative as to how to vote. The graphic is a painting of Adriaan van Zeebergh and his board of the Teylers Stichting.
This quotation was used without a publication citation by many Blogs throughout the Internet which were opposed to President George W. Bush. Many people, especially Bush supporters, believed this to be a phantom quotation. However, it was real, from 1920. It was agin circulated when Dolad Trump was elected and the fit with Trump was even better.
In Dolgoff’s era, his argument was that the political parties were so powerful that it was they who controlled who held public office, not the voters. And the parties were controlled by a few party leaders. However, when the system was reformed in the latter part of the 20th century, the individual incumbent member of Congress in America was so hard to dislodge due to the role of money and the advantage of incumbency, that the class of professional politicians was still very powerful. Reform had reduced the control of political parties but not politicians.
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC CC CH QC FRSC, also referred to by the initials PET, was a Canadian politician who was the 15th prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1968 to 1984, with a brief period instead as Leader of the Opposition between 1979 and 1980. His tenure of 15 years and 164 days makes him Canada's third longest-serving Prime Minister, behind William Lyon Mackenzie King and John A. Macdonald.
