Joseph Sobran Quotes

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won. In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected. Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

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

To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I very happily stand for the right of every man and woman in Pennsylvania to have their voice heard in elections. And when they do have their voice heard, it's nothing short of a privilege to welcome and respect that voice because this is a democracy, and that's what we do.

Let's face it, politics in this country is coin-operated. Does that really equate to a real democracy? It's very difficult to say.

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.