Tom DeLay Quotes

Africa must develop a genuine culture of alternation and opposition, without which democracy in any country, including the West, cannot exist.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which often necessitates political compromise, I had not had to make any such concessions.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

If Donald Trump governs the way he campaigned, it'll be a disastrous presidency. This is a chance for him to be magnanimous, humble. To work across the aisle. If that's the kind of president we have, that's fine. But if not, I want our DNC chair, I want Democratic senators and Congresspeople, citizens, we need to resist.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

My critics always forget to mention that I was democratically elected, the others were not. Everyone in Uganda can challenge me, everyone can vote, the elections are free. Not many countries have achieved what we did.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.