Haskell Wexler Quotes

The voice of the people must be heeded.

When the people's voice cannot be heard, that's when we make mistakes.

If populism means reducing the gap between the people and the elite, giving sovereignty - the fullness of sovereignty - back to the people, and making the job of representation really adhere to the protection of the interests represented, we embrace the title of populists.

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

The representative assembly (House of Representatives) ... should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large. It should think, feel, reason, and act like them

You know the voice of the people is a very, very powerful tool.

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

Public opinion must be heard.

It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

I think people across America want a leader who's actually going to listen to them.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

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

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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

Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing. And you want those voices heard.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.