Reid Hoffman Quotes

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

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Government is not a bottom line enterprise. You can get yourself elected ... but you can't fire the legislature if they won't do what you want.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

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.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

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

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

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

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

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

A republic is little better than a government of devils

The wisdom and discretion of Congress ... are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely, in all representative governments

With all its faults, the American political system is probably the best political system in the world.

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

... we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.

Congress is where Americans are supposed to have our big, messy political fights. That's because the people who make the laws need to be hired and fired by the people. Don't like the laws? Fire the lawmakers.

The Sudanese people decide who rules them.