Juan Enriquez Quotes

This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

It's up to the community now to decide if they want to keep this team.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

Trust the people. They’ll get it right. They always do.

How can we decide matters of public policy when we cannot understand them?

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

The influence of every mode of thinking which is shared by numbers ought to be felt in the legislature.

If the American people are going to support a policy than they had better be made to understand the rationale.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

'Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.

China … has gone from being ruled by strongmen with personal credibility to leaders who are constrained by collective decision making, term limits and other norms, public opinion, and their own technocratic characters.

The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government's decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

If the people allow something to happen, it's the right thing.

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Lincoln said, public sentiment is everything. We have to listen to the people and come together as we prioritize our agenda and go forward.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.