Jair Bolsonaro Quotes

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

The German voting system is the freest in the world, much freer than the French, English, or American system, because not only does it operate in accordance with the principle that every one shall have a direct and secret vote, but the powers of the State are exercised faithfully and conscientiously to carry out that principle in practice. The constitutional life of the German Nation is of a thoroughly democratic character.

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.

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

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

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.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

We must care more about bloodless revolutions called elections than about who wins the elections.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Democracy exists in Mexico 354 days of the year. It is only missing on Election Day.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Most men, being the ruled, not the rulers, want good government. If, without constraint, they choose bad government, it is by mistake

Political competition is the heartbeat of democracy.

I know how illusory would be the belief that my vote determined anything; but nevertheless when I go to the polls I have a satisfaction in the sense that we are all engaged in a common venture.

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

Our Constitution sought to leave no excuse for violent attack on the status quo by providing a legal alternative—attack by ballot.

Be it bumper stickers on your car, yard signs on your lawn, a letter to your local newspaper or member of Congress, the Internet or a voluntary contribution of your own hard earned money to candidates or party of your choosing, these are all constitutionally protected means of participation in our democracy.

Don’t vote. it only encourages the bastards.