Krystal Ball Quotes

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

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.

The function of a parliamentary democracy, under universal suffrage, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attacks of the people.

All societies, including societies called democratic, are ruled by a minority.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

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

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

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

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people.

The democratic system prevailing in the world does not suit us ...

Senators here were elected to the Senate and not to the caucus ... great questions of this sort should be debated in public and decided in public.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.

There must be some limits on the form of democracy. It can’t be winner take all.

One of my goals, is to make the House co-equal with the White House.

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

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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