Jerrold Nadler Quotes

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

We should not allow the minority to control the majority by requiring super majorities on budget related votes.

All societies, including societies called democratic, are ruled by a minority.

It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy.

Government is not the enemy. Government is simply a tool that can be used wisely or unwisely.

Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

Eliminating the filibuster would eliminate the people’s voices in the Senate.

For government to be chosen regularly in free elections, the losers must trust the winners not to abuse the power they have won.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

We don't have to settle for Freedom Caucus tactics - those guys are tyrants. We don't have to accept that. In fact, we can't and have this country be what this country really can be.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Obama is trying to protect Obamacare, and then obviously even in his own party a bunch of people are against it.

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.

The minority must bow to the majority.

As the nation's attention turns from Washington politics to the Obamacare disaster, Democrats will have no choice but to reconsider our fair and reasonable proposals to delay the law.

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

As I have always said, the ACA is not without flaws, and I welcome the opportunity to improve the law to make healthcare more affordable and ensure every American has quality health insurance.

The ACA - popularly known as 'Obamacare' - has been an important step forward toward an admirable goal: providing access to health insurance for all Americans. But like many reforms generated by the political process, the ACA is problematic.

Democracy is about electoral competition.

We need to work together to strengthen protections for pre-existing conditions and improve upon the gains made under the ACA, not tear it down.