Eduardo Paes Quotes

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

The people can never err more in supposing that by multiplying their representatives beyond a certain limit they strengthen the barrier against the government of a few.

As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

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

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

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

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.

The deputies of the people should not and cannot be the people's representatives, they can only be its servants.... The moment that people give power to their representatives, they abdicate their liberty.

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

The people are gainers by the election of representatives. They may destroy, but they cannot exercise, the powers of government in person, but by their servants they govern: they do not renounce their power; they do not sacrifice their rights; they become the true sovereigns of the country when they delegate that power, which they cannot use themselves to their trustees.

How is it the community can check ? The community can act only when assembled; and when assembled, it is incapable of acting. The community, however, can choose representatives.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Democracy cannot be imagined without Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha, and they cannot be imagined without MPs and MLAs.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?