Matt Bevin Quotes

You may elect whatever candidates you please to office, if you will allow me to select the candidates.

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

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.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

The vote is the last great equalizer that we have in this country.

The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

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.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs.

Your vote is your voice.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

Somebody is going to be making the laws for this entire country. It could be you. Will it be you?

I'm going to support the candidate that the voters chose. The voters get to choose who's best to represent them.

With universal suffrage, every chief executive candidate must face the seven million people of Hong Kong, explain his or her political platform and mission, and win over the people by addressing their interests and concerns.

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

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.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.