Clint Eastwood Quotes

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

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

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

Influence elected government officials, don't just elect them. Your right is to govern yourselves, not just to choose your governors.

One lesson of the vote for Brexit was that citizens were fed up being treated as bystanders. One of the gains of Leave was the flourishing of a sense of agency and self-determination that it afforded to many.

I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

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

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Every country has the government it deserves.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.