Joe Wurzelbacher Quotes

The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

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.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

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.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

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.

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

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.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Now we are governed by gentlemen.

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

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

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

Most men, being the ruled, not the rulers, want good government. If, without constraint, they choose bad government, it is by mistake

Our democracy is only as good as the people who are willing to step up and run for office.

… take the Constitution out of cold storage!

Good government

We cannot long protect liberty if our leaders continue to act like mere bystanders in the work of government.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

... we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.