Alesha Dixon Quotes

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the public's band.

It's up to the audience. It always has been.

The public is never wrong.

Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.

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

You can not reduce issues to simple yes or no answers in a plebiscite.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

The public will vote if they have something important to vote for or against.

You don't determine what is good policy by polling.

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

If you vote no, you don't go. [The compromise passed.]

It is now possible to say that the judgment of the people has often been wiser than the judgment of Congressmen or even of the experts. For one thing, the public has no axes to grind. Pressure groups aren't at work on the general public, as they are on legislators.

I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.

I’m not in favor of referendums, and I will never put one before the British people.

I know of no better or safer human tribunal than the people.

The masses, the public, is too strict.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

Mass opinion has acquired mounting power in this century. It has shown itself to be a dangerous master of decisions when the stakes are life and death.

A democratic state must feel before it can see; that is what makes it slow to act. But the people, at last, will be right.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

In a democracy, if the people don’t vote, the policies are made by others….The major decisions of our society are going to be made by our elected officials, like it or not.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.