Andrew Jackson Quotes

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Democracy exists in Mexico 354 days of the year. It is only missing on Election Day.

Our democracy has been going for over 235 years and it has not always been as dysfunctional as it is today.

It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

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

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

There are few things we will do in America as important as pulling the lever for President of the United States of America.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.

… a permanent Council of the ablest men chosen by the people

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.

We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.

If we are competing in elections, it's because we believe in the popular vote and will be slaves to our constitution.

We deserve to elect our own government.

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.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.