Thaksin Shinawatra Quotes

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

If there is any power in this country greater than the power of the people, we will destroy it.

We do not believe in the infallibility, nor even in the general goodness of the masses; on the contrary. But we believe even less in the infallibility and goodness of those who seize power and legislate.

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

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.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

The government serves the people - not vice-versa.

Only basic agreement on the major objectives of the state can provide a society with a firm basis for democracy.

A government as good as the people.

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

Neither current events nor history shows that the majority rules, or ever did rule.

To say that sovereignty vests with the people, and that they have not a right to instruct and control their representative is absurd to the last degree.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction.

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

We" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage…