Donald Trump Quotes

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

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

Government is the majority’s!

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

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

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

Presidents come from the people and the should return to the people.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

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

We the People ….

...nations have no command over their governments, & in fact no influence over them, except of a fleeting & rather ineffectual sort.

We all know that in democracies, some of these [necessary] reforms are unpopular.

If you give up on politics, you give up on democracy … and then we are absolute plutocracy.

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.