Bill Clinton Quotes

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.

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

The government is just the people acting together.

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …

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

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

Free government is government by public opinion. Upon the soundness and integrity of public opinion depends the destiny of democracy.

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?

A democratic state must feel before it can see; that is what makes it slow to act. But the people, at last, will be right.

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

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

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law.

A government is not in power. It is in office, put there by the will of the people.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

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

In our system of government, nobody has the last word except the people.

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

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

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Should the people rule?

We have submitted the issues to the American people, and their word is law.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.