Popular Mandate Quotes

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

A President is not elected to do as he pleases. He is elected to do as the people please.

If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.

Legitimacy [of governments] is not bought by force; it is earned by the consensus of the people.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Narendra Modi promised a future and represented a hope. He wanted to rid the nation of a non-performing, corrupt government. People voted for him.

The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.

I am, as you know, only the servant of the people.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

Polls are not the instruments of the mob. They offer the prospect of leadership wedded to a finely calibrated measurement of opinion.

Every government is the exact symbol of its people ... Like People like Government.

I can no longer be called the President of a party. I am now the president of the whole people.

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

Elections are the means we use to establish the will of the people in order to assure the rule of the people.

In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.

[Describing the presidency:] ... the organ of the will of the nation ... elective kingship.

Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin.

Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?

I'm responding to the will of the people.

At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box, as do all of us politicians.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

This government will mark a rupture from the previous one, because that is the wish of the French people.

I accept the verdict of the people.

The safety of a minister lies in his having the approbation of this House. Former ministers, Sir, neglected this, and therefore they fell; I have always made it my first study to obtain it...