Pete Rozelle Quotes

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 a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

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

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

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

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

Proportional representation, I think, is fundamentally counter-democratic.

That’s one difficulty about a democracy. Nothing ever gets decided—even after its been decided.

I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

Both parties keep talking about the will of the people. The will of the people should determine the President. This is the same will of the people that made Charlie’s Angels the number one movie.

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?

The election of the Executive ought to be by the national Legislature, that then respect will be paid to that character best qualified

Divide the Continent into four Divisions, out of which a certain number of persons should be nominated, and out of that nomination to appoint a Senate

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

How is it the community can check ? The community can act only when assembled; and when assembled, it is incapable of acting. The community, however, can choose representatives.

We never go against a candidate for one or two votes. You can’t.

The Rules Committee is the place that Democracy comes to die.

Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilization, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them.

We have submitted the issues to the American people, and their word is law.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.