Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

In a Democracy, look how many … many powerful Orators there are with the people.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.

I have always said that I believe in the people's right to vote on an issue.

You can't keep a democracy going in a functional and constructive way if only 10 percent of the people you represent think your institution is functioning in an acceptable way. That's just not viable.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

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

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

When somebody contributes to a campaign, that is democracy at work.

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

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

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

Americans take part in political activities because they believe that by doing so they can influence government decisions

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.