Che Guevara Quotes

The modern democratic state is legitimated by the priority of the public over the private, where public goods trump private interests, and the commonweal takes precedence over individual fortunes.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

Elections are the means we use to establish the will of the people in order to assure the rule of the people.

How central shall democracy be in everything else we want to do in the world?

Parties are means for good government and not its ends.

Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.

The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

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