Ayelet Shaked Quotes

If you ever doubt that the people are the boss in a democracy, run for office. Even the President is a hired hand.

President or Prime Minister are not any individuals. They are an institutions in itself, and in democracy, we should ensure that the dignity of the institutions is not lowered.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example ... of charters of power granted by liberty.

The people made this government, and not the government the people. Destroy the intelligence of the people, and the government could not exist for a day; — destroy this government, and the people would create another, and yet another, of no less perfect symmetry.

The Egyptian people have their own free will and the Army and the police are there to implement that will.

A democratic state too gentlemanly to learn all it can about threats us a state that betrayed its most fundamental responsibilities.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. ... And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution.

In a democracy such as ours military policy is dependent on public opinion.

Of course we should have only the government we need. But we must insist on all the government we need.

The only legitimacy we have is the law—not what politicians tell you …. The legal system in this country is what distinguishes us from every other attempt at Republican Democracy that failed.

The government should not be in the business of deciding who is honorable.

The fate of our democracy lies both in the hannds if the people and of the President

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

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

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

I have always been opposed to illegal changes of our Government or the overthrow of its institutions, whether by force or other illegal means. I have always believed in the democratic processes.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.