Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

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

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

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.

Elections shall be open, free and equal, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent an un-trammeled exercise of the right of suffrage.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

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

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

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

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

There are different ways to get responsive government leaders but one of the more effective ways is to have them democratically elected.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

What does a vote for impeachment really mean? It is a vote to nullify the most sacrosanct institution in any democracy, the ballot box.

This is one of the finest expressions of U. S. democracy at work.

The method of democracy is to bring ... conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

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

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

Let The People Rule