public mandate Quotes

It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

We'd be very happy to work with any government of the day which the people in India elect.

We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

I genuinely believe the next leader has to be somebody who sees the opportunity of leaving the EU and is completely determined to deliver on what the people have told us to do.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

We did not send them [Senators] here to vote their conscience; we sent them here to vote the will of their constituents.

I will serve as long as the people want me to serve.

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.