Ayelet Shaked Quotes

In uncertain times, it is of heightened importance that our elected representatives exercise their democratic duty and use all levers at parliament's disposal to ensure a fair balance of powers.

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

The democratic element has a fortunate effect in the political sphere when it is balanced by another force. We have this advantage over our neighbors, the Americans, who have extreme democracy.

... the grand depository of the democratic principles of the Government ...

Liberal democracies have their own means of holding leaders accountable. They are called elections.

We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.

I'm passionate about parliament democracy.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

The superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations .

In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution [the Senate], it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were,—first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

Our system of government is protected from the cabal of the few and the confusion of the multitude.