Referendum Process Quotes

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

I’m not in favor of referendums, and I will never put one before the British people.

We can't have a referendum on every important question. This is a republic, not a democracy. This is Chicago, not California.

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.

I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

If certain selected bodies of men, deputed on these principles, determine contrary to the wishes and expectations of their constituents, the people have an undoubted right to reject their decisions, to call for a revision of their conduct, to depute others in their room, or if they think proper, to demand further time for deliberation on matters of the greatest moment: …

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.