Rick Santelli Quotes

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

If you love the parliamentary system and are totally devoted to it ... that has to survive above all else, above your own individual thoughts about philosophy.

If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

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?

Democracy abhors a vacuum.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

The people want to exercise power but what on earth would they do with it if it were given to them?

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

All power lays in the people!

The public happiness is the true object of legislation, and can be secured only by the masses of mankind themselves awakening to the knowledge and the care of their own interests.

We are at a point where democracy—the idea and practice of people controlling their lives—is a revolutionary issue in the United States.