Ayelet Shaked Quotes

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

Elected presidents are for countries.

Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I think it's a very tough situation.

There never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another.

In government it is order that matters.

A country can live under a monarchy or a republic, with a parliamentary or a presidential system, under communism or fascism. But it cannot live in anarchy.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Democracy is a good client.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

I love politics.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We're not a democracy.

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

The Turkish state has neither a crowned head nor a dictator.