Rich Galen Quotes

Take it from me: Elections matter.

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

When politics is interesting, people go vote.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

Democracy is more than just election day.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Democracy is more than just having free elections. It's having political structures.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

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

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

Citizens everywhere should be able to choose their leaders in climates free of fear.

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It's a very painful and difficult process of many mistakes when people receive the right to vote, to elect their leaders when they become the subject for mass media for political manipulation. In particular, in a country like Russia, because we had to go through this period very quickly, it has been, I would say, a crash course in democracy