Carrie Lam Quotes

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

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

I didn’t understand. In a democracy, the people have to be entertained.

I do believe Hong Kong's 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

If I want to run for president, you'll be able to tell.

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.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

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.

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

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

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

The great advantage of representatives is their capacity of discussing public affairs. For this, the people collectively are extremely unfit, which is one of the chief inconveniences of a democracy.

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

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

Is it average Joes like ourselves who go to the ballot box and truly decide who are going to be the leaders, not only of their party - of their government - at the local, at the state, at the federal level? Is that really who's still in charge?

Implementing universal suffrage for the 2017 election is a big step forward along our road to democracy. This is not only a solemn commitment of the central authorities to Hong Kong but also the aspiration shared by seven million Hong Kong people.

I'm going to support the candidate that the voters chose. The voters get to choose who's best to represent them.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.