Debbie Stabenow Quotes

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

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

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

In a democracy we assume that people can define their own interest and vote that way.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

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

I’m not allergic to democracy. The only advice I have is let’s give it a different name and keep doing it.

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

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