Jack Ma Quotes

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.

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

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

I'm passionate about parliament democracy.

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

Democracy fascinates me.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

One of these days I’m going to blast President Truman’s State Department wide open.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

I didn’t understand. In a democracy, the people have to be entertained.

The Chinese people don't get to vote but they do get to grumble.

I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.

I don't think we should be undermining our democracy.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.