Andrew Jackson Quotes

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

Ought not every man who pays a tax, to vote for the representative who is to levy and dispose of his money.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage and Votes by Ballot.

In this country, you don't have any democracy really. You have the right to elect but not to select. For example, here's two people: you get to vote for one of them. But you didn't choose in the first place either of them. That's not democracy…

Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?

Serving in the U.S. Congress is about much more than voting on bills. It is about taking on the corporate bullies that taint our democratic process and pushing back when the system is broken.

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

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

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.