Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quotes

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

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

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

The actual rulers in a parliamentary democracy are the class of professional politicians. In theory, they are supposed to represent the people, but in fact they rule over them.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

A politician is an arse upon which every one has sat except a man.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Political corruption is eating our democracy out from the inside. Most Americans know that. But democratic and economic health can't be easily disentangled.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

My election to the position of president is the symbol of the greatness of Indian democracy.

Only those who vote politicians into power have the right to depose them.

It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United States, I must add that I don't want to make too much of the distinction between the Bush regime and its predecessors. I don't see a great deal of difference.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.