Bill Flores Quotes

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

We can't wait until elections to fight for what we care about. We can't hope for a benevolent leader who may choose to listen to us. We need a network that lets the best ideas and leaders rise to the top through an open, inclusive democratic process.

I really believe you've gotta put the power in the people. They're the ones who are gonna make the experience.

Voting for socialism is not socialism any more than a menu is a meal.

A democratic state must feel before it can see; that is what makes it slow to act. But the people, at last, will be right.

Frequent return to the bar of their Constituents is the strongest check against the corruptions to which men are liable, either from the intrigues of others of more subtle genius, or the propensities of their own hearts…

As we have the right of desiring amendments, why not exercise it.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

I know how illusory would be the belief that my vote determined anything; but nevertheless when I go to the polls I have a satisfaction in the sense that we are all engaged in a common venture.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

How is it the community can check ? The community can act only when assembled; and when assembled, it is incapable of acting. The community, however, can choose representatives.

No man is big enough to run this great republic. There has never been one.

I’m not allergic to democracy. The only advice I have is let’s give it a different name and keep doing it.

Government is not an enemy of the people. Government is the people themselves.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

In the democracy we live in today, it takes crisis to get the politics moving.

[Citizens] have the political liberty to direct the governmental process to make decisions that might be wrong in the ideal sense, subject to correction in the ordinary political process.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

Electoral victory is not an end in itself. It is intended to set in motion a pluralist process to resolve our disputes and move the country forward.

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

The whole point of politics is to stay in touch, to be relevant to modern problems, to offer people relief from current worries, to give them hope based on contemporary experience.

My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.

As a member of the House of Lords, I don't have a vote. If I did, I would be motivated as much by what I don't want as what I do. I do want a Final Say referendum. So I do not want a Johnson majority.

There's nothing wrong with any group of Americans using our democratic system in order to advance their policy views.

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.