Carles Puigdemont Quotes

The government is just the people acting together.

We don't go against the will of the people.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter.

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

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

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

Public opinion has become the public law

There is an original, undivided and incommunicable authority and supremacy in the collective body of the people, to whom all delegated power must submit, and from whom there is no appeal.

… by consenting with others to make one body-politic under government, a man puts himself under an obligation to every one of that society to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it.

[Citizens] have the political liberty to direct the governmental process to make decisions that might be wrong in the ideal sense, subject to correction in the ordinary political process.

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.

I grieve to see that the Government is governed by the hurrahs of the soldiers or the citizens. It does not lead opinion, but follows it.

I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people.

It is the role of the government to do what the people want to be done.

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a President or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

We shall determine all matters of state by public discussion, after assemblies have been convoked far and wide.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

As force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as the most free and the most popular.

In our system of government, nobody has the last word except the people.

As the legislature of my state has thought proper to bring my name forward without consulting me, I mean to be silent, and let the people do as seemeth unto them.

In a democracy you [politicians] have to let the press and the people give you crap.

I’m not in favor of referendums, and I will never put one before the British people.