James H. Douglas Jr. Quotes

Democracy should be home grown.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

I believe in decentralized democracy.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.

When I become mayor it will not be of LaSalle Street nor of State Street, but of all the people.

Let The People Rule

In a society pledged to self-government, it is never true that, in the long run, the security of the nation is endangered by the people.

If the people want a government of their own they must do the work of making it their own.

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

All power lays in the people!

Should the people rule?

Local Nationalism