Ralph E. Reed Jr. Quotes

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The role of government is, I believe, the most potent but underappreciated cultural issue in American politics.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Elections have consequences.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

The strength of representative democracy is its ability to slow down those in power who wish to govern by blank cheque, but also those not in power who wish to yank the state about on the sole basis of their self-interest.

Politics is about accountability, it is about leadership, it is about courage.

If a democracy is to remain real and stable, the majority must be humane and farsighted enough to take care of minorities who have serious objections to the majorities point of view and who, because of lack of numbers, do not have the political strength to impose their own policy solutions through their own political power.

The actual rulers in a parliamentary democracy are the class of professional politicians. In theory, they are supposed to represent the people, but in fact they rule over them.

Government is like an undershirt. If you don't change it frequently, it begins to stink.

The World is governed too much.

Each age must … contend anew with the question of power and accountability.

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

The House of Representatives is the center of power of the most powerful nation in the world.