Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

We" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people

Our form of government is called a democracy because instead of being controlled by a monopoly, it is controlled by the whole people.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

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

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

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.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

A radical ... and revolutionary ... attack upon the fundamental basic principle of representative democracy for free people.

Our government has become a system rather than a living expression of the popular will.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

The wisdom and discretion of Congress ... are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely, in all representative governments

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.