Jay S. Fishman Quotes

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

I’m not allergic to democracy. The only advice I have is let’s give it a different name and keep doing it.

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.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Discussion is the bedrock of American democracy.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

This is one of the finest expressions of U. S. democracy at work.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

All of us today are learning democracy. We are only now forming a political culture.

Democratic processes require time.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

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