Bill Clinton Quotes

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …

The government is just the people acting together.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

We are afraid to trust ourselves, and pretend that we are afraid to trust the people. My hopes have rested and always will rest upon the people …. The people will rise in their majesty, and the world will be interested in the spectacle.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The voice of the people must be heeded.

the only vehicle through which we can get a clear-cut and unequivocal decision of the people.]

Forget the polls and remember the people.

Democracy is based on the idea that the people rule and that the best decisions are made in public view.

I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.

I know of no better or safer human tribunal than the people.

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

A democratic state must feel before it can see; that is what makes it slow to act. But the people, at last, will be right.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere.

Trust in the ability of people to make decisions about their own future is a fundamental tenet of democracy.

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.

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.

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.