Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

In republics the executive must be strongest because everything conspires against it, while in monarchies the legislature must be strongest, because everything conspires in favour of the monarch

We're not a democracy.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

I happen to be one of those people who do not believe in muIti-party democracy.

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

If when I die I am still a dictator I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a stable base for a democratic government, I will be remembered forever in every home in China.

Democracy is slow … A king can always outrun a congressman.

Not that I distrust the King, but that I cannot give trust except in a parliamentary way.

All free governments must consist of two councils, a lesser and a greater.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another.

This is the only country in the world where a dictator will be allowed to sit among a democratically elected Congress. Everywhere else evil dictators go into exile.

The king, in possession of the throne, was the sole representative of sovereignty, the sole representative of power. Not so in a Republic … Here we have no sole representative of power. The ballot box is the instrumentality through which the sovereign power is exercised.

We are convinced that the institution of monarchy is incompatible with the spirit and needs of modern times which demand an egalitarian relationship between one citizen and another

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done — we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.

As for us BRITONS, thank Heaven, we have a better Sense of Government deliver’d to us from our Ancestors. We have the Notion of A PUBLIC and A CONSTITUTION; how a Legislative, and how an Executive is model’d.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

If we carefully consider what our constitution is, we will conclude that it is, in fact, a limited monarchy.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Any president we choose becomes a czar in Russia. I don't want czars anymore. I don't want to be a czar myself. I want to be a democratic leader.

Israel is not an anarchy.

We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The president must have powers defined under the 1973 constitution, nothing more.