Daniel Pipes Quotes

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Democracy is slow … A king can always outrun a congressman.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

When somebody contributes to a campaign, that is democracy at work.

Democracy exists in Mexico 354 days of the year. It is only missing on Election Day.

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

Roosevelt understood that democracy requires persuasion and consent

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

Democracy demands the generation of conflict for the manifestation of different expectations and aspirations of people and at the same time its resolution through peaceful means

I’m not allergic to democracy. The only advice I have is let’s give it a different name and keep doing it.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.