Julius C. C. Edelstein Quotes

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

We have voted. The people have spoken. It’s just going to take a little while to figure out what we said.

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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

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

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

Don't call the question unless you've got the votes.

You can not reduce issues to simple yes or no answers in a plebiscite.

Polls make leadership impossible.

A majority can do anything.

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

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

If you vote no, you don't go. [The compromise passed.]

In all legislative assemblies, the greater the number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings.

Everything appears to take long in Congress. This is democracy in action.

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

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

The will of the majority will be respected.

I accept the verdict of the people.

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.

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

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

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.