Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

We'll vote when we have the votes.

I want to thank the 32 Senators who said that they would vote for me and the 27 who did.

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

We’ve reformed our representative democracy into the past.

The Russian government pushed too hard to change the system overnight.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

I hate to see the entire issue decided on as narrow a base, but ... the size of the vote is more important than the arguments that are made.

We are making our revolution slowly and by constitutional methods.

Majorities without discipline are not majorities.

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

The influence of every mode of thinking which is shared by numbers ought to be felt in the legislature.

Political reforms, without exception, have a down side.

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

Great innovations should not be forced on a slender majority

Constant, patient reform—the only kind of reform compatible with Democratic stability—is unsatisfying.

The problem for a politician of listening to the people, is that they don’t always agree.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

Let the filibuster be no more. Let the people decide.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.

The public does not necessarily want to hear, much less to act on unsettling or disturbing findings… censorship can be, and is frequently supported by the majority of the population.

It is unquestionably the duty of the industrial classes, by means of the ballot, to speedily take the Government into their own hands, but in doing so to do justice to all.

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals. No wonder the peoples who have democratic forms of government cling to them.