George Allen Quotes

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

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

The unique thing about our country is that we don't get behind politicians, politicians get behind us.

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

The public has to have a head, and if the President takes the heads away, the public will have his.

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?

In a society pledged to self-government, it is never true that, in the long run, the security of the nation is endangered by the people.

We are in a movement that must not fade away. The bosses are you. The people in Washington are public servants, and they serve you.

That's what representative democracy is about, is members going to Washington but coming home and answering the tough questions.

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

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.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.