Quotes about Ceremonial Role

Dalai Lama

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

Noam Chomsky

The Queen of England opens every new Parliament by reading the government’s political program but no one asks if she even understands it.

Actually, Queen Elisabeth II, at that time the Queen of England, was very sophisticated about the policies of the nation. Chomsky’s point was not that the Queen was ignorant; it was that her role is ceremonial and it is not critical or even material that the monarch in a Constitutional Democracy understands or approves of the government program that is being presented.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.

Jimmy Breslin

The office of the President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Judy Woodruff

Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The first lady should lean back when in an open car so that the crowd can see the President.

Ilana Mercer

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ceremonial Role Quotes