Franjo Tudjman Quotes

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

You have come here by the sovereign will of the people to cooperate with me in carrying out the mandate recently pronounced at the polls.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

I know Donald's [Trump] trying very hard to plant doubts about it, but I hope the people out there understand: This election's really up to you. It's not about us so much as it is about you and your families and the kind of country and future you want. So I sure hope you will get out and vote as though your future depended on it, because I think it does.

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

The popularity of the party and Yingluck is getting more and more.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

The future of any leader or political systems is to be determined by the people of the country.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would've been extreme, we would've got 0.01 per cent of the vote. We got more than 10 per cent of the vote.

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.