Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes

If everybody just stops caring about politics, we're going to lose the reins on our government.

All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. … It is not the wish of our government to impose upon you alien institutions.

Influence elected government officials, don't just elect them. Your right is to govern yourselves, not just to choose your governors.

We congratulate the people of this commonwealth warmly and heartily upon their emancipation from mock military duty.

What is the basic unit of "self" in the expression "self-government?" How large does your group have to be before it can be a government unto itself? In fact, do you have to be part of a group at all?

It is our purpose to respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live and to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.