Narendra Modi Quotes

Our job is to bash the President.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

[People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

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

What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country should hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.

... the gentleman from New York has been praised by everybody, he has been supported by none.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

If you have an open society that what happens—people say things and they criticize you.

I didn’t understand. In a democracy, the people have to be entertained.

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.

When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.

Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him... the better off we all are.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.