Ayanna Pressley Quotes

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

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

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

Voting should be the right of the great body of the society…an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it awakens.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

Democracy divides the population into two groups: those of us who complain about government and those of us who are complained about.

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

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.