Kate Smith Quotes

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

When there is a danceoff, it's scary thinking that someone's destiny or fate is in your hands. I actually always prefer it when the public decide on something rather than four individuals. 11 million people are a lot more powerful than four judges.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

We shall determine all matters of state by public discussion, after assemblies have been convoked far and wide.

Mass opinion has acquired mounting power in this century. It has shown itself to be a dangerous master of decisions when the stakes are life and death.

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.

You don't determine what is good policy by polling.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

We don't go against the will of the people.

This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.

Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round of applause, how do you feel?' Right? 'By a round of applause, how you feeling?' It's the only place in the world that you judge how you're feeling by a round of applause... There's never like a car accident, people all over the ground, people running over - 'Ma'am! Ma'am! By a round of applause, how do you feel? By a round of applause - she's not clapping!

Who gets to decide what you want?

Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.