Bulent Ecevit Quotes

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

When I grow up I’m going to change the government.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

It is given to Bristol in this election to wrench the parliamentary system away from its feudal origins, and pitchfork it kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.

We have been with democracy for over 200 years and from time to time we find that we have not perfected it.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

Democracy comes alive not when government does anything, because government cannot be depended on to rectify serious injustices. It comes alive when people organize and do something about it.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That's just how it is.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, not just every four years, but all the time.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!