Juan Guaido Quotes

As president of the National Assembly, I am fully able and willing to assume the office of the presidency on an interim basis to call for free and fair elections.

We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

In a new democracy, the most important election is the second election.

In Russia we are not fighting to win elections. We are fighting to have elections.

Popular elections by country rustics and intriguing city-dwellers are one more obstacle to the practice of federation among us; because the former are so ignorant that they cast their votes mechanically, and the latter so ambitious that they convert everything into factions; therefore in Venezuela there has never been a free and just vote

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

In all our history, there is no change of government peacefully.

I do not wish to slander his name, I think Netanyahu ran the country well but his time is up.

Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.

Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

To achieve a successful transition, we don't just have to remove Maduro. We also have to rescue our institutions themselves. That's why we have set out three phases: ending Maduro's usurpation of power, implementing a transition government, and holding free elections.

It is a big challenge, but I believe that, although difficult, it is not impossible to replace President dos Santos.

As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

If you've worked together with somebody very well, leave-taking is very difficult. But we are all politicians. We all know that democracy lives off change. So, in the United States of America, the Constitution has very clear stipulations on this. It's a tough rule. Eight years and that's it, out goes the president and a new one comes in.

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.

I want there to be an open and positive debate about the path the country will now take. Whatever the verdict of that debate I will respect it.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

Today more people lose their seats in the Politburo in Havana than in the Congress of America, ... We need to have competitive races for the Legislature. ... We have to have a clash of ideas.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.