John Redwood Quotes

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

We’ve reformed our representative democracy into the past.

Americans expect others to embrace democracy immediately when we as a nation didn’t.

This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.

We have more and more rules coming out of Europe telling us what to do, and I think people are getting a bit fed up with it. This was supposed to be a common market. I don't remember them ever saying we would be governed by Brussels and become a satellite of Europe.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments.

I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

We have no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights, and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction.

In a society pledged to self-government, it is never true that, in the long run, the security of the nation is endangered by the people.

In this country the government responds to the people, not the other way around.

A sense of nationhood does not prepare a people for instant democracy.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage…

The Egyptian people have their own free will and the Army and the police are there to implement that will.

The fate of our democracy lies both in the hannds if the people and of the President

We should not replicate the situation where one country is in a situation to hijack the rest of Europe because they organize a referendum.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.