Elizabeth Warren Quotes

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

There will be a new president in this country someday, and I have as good a chance as anybody.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Your vote is your voice.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

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

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

The only reason we won this election is that money does not vote. You do!

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

The minority must bow to the majority.

Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.

I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won. In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected. Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.