Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

Sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people.

In our system of government, nobody has the last word except the people.

We are an inclusive rather than an exclusive party …. The authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

The people are, in fact, the fountain of all power.

To the people belongs the power of approving or rejecting laws and, which is still of greater importance, peace and war are likewise fixed by their deliberations. When any alliance is concluded, any war ended, or treaty made; to them the conditions are referred, and by them either annulled or ratified. And thus again, from a view of all these circumstances, it might with reason be imagined, that the people had engrossed the largest portion of the government, and that the state was plainly a democracy.

In the United States the people are the government; and their united voice is the only sovereign that should rule; the only power that should be obeyed; and the only gentlemen that should be honored; at home and abroad; on the land and the sea.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

The best way of preventing the army from confiscating power for itself and for itself alone is to make this power shared by the Voltaic people from the outset. That's what we are aiming for.

The Egyptian people have their own free will and the Army and the police are there to implement that will.

The people living in this land, its inhabitants, its citizens, rich and poor, great and humble… these are all the true lords and masters, who have the right to say how and through whom they are to be governed.

After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts the people with the power to make the tough decisions. And, in most cases, it prefers the will of the people to the unchecked rule of judges.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

The will of the people is the best law.

Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.