Sean Connery Quotes

Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

Our government has become a system rather than a living expression of the popular will.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

If there’s not a good feedback loop from the people to the government, and if you have rule of the bureaucrat — if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

... elections are no longer representative.

It is true that I am still permitted to cast my vote, but I do so with the foreknowledge that it will not count .... My membership is at once a fraud and a farce.

The public has to have a head, and if the President takes the heads away, the public will have his.

Are the governors such exceptionally gifted men as to enable them … to represent the masses and act in the interests of all men better than all men would be able to act for themselves?

We" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people

One Representative to thirty thousand inhabitants is a very inadequate representation…

No, I look at the senators and pray for the country!

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.

...nations have no command over their governments, & in fact no influence over them, except of a fleeting & rather ineffectual sort.

America is less democratic than it might be because the preferences of the ultra wealthy often outweigh the preferences of everyone else.

Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many.

Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

Who I am really doesn't matter at all. If I'm the worst person in the world, you can hate me and move on. What really matters here are the issues. What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies.