Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

The battle is over the most basic ideas of our democracy; at stake,--according to both sides—is either the revitalization of politics, or its final capture by the powerful.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

I once had considerable expectations from Congress, But since they adopted the fiery resolves of … Massachusetts, all hope of good from them has vanished

The only legitimacy we have is the law—not what politicians tell you …. The legal system in this country is what distinguishes us from every other attempt at Republican Democracy that failed.

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.

Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States.

In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.

We rely on the rule of law. I think we've lost touch with that concept in Washington.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.