Carles Puigdemont Quotes

Democracy is about aggregating the collective power of citizens to speak in their behalf.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

The voice of the people must be heeded.

The government is just the people acting together.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

The vote is the last great equalizer that we have in this country.

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

I accept the verdict of the people.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.

[Describing America:] Public opinion, which is there omnipotent, is generally right in its aims ...

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

If you ever doubt that the people are the boss in a democracy, run for office. Even the President is a hired hand.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

the only vehicle through which we can get a clear-cut and unequivocal decision of the people.]

Democracy is based on the idea that the people rule and that the best decisions are made in public view.

Polling can undermine the ability of officials to lay out, debate, analyze, and implement their plans. By turning to instant [electronic] polls we would eliminate the captain and the officers and leave every shipboard decision to the passengers.

Our government has become a system rather than a living expression of the popular will.

The people never have and never will be able to understand how the will of a majority of the House of Representatives can be set aside by the judgment of a few men on a powerful committee.

The public has to have a head, and if the President takes the heads away, the public will have his.