Fergus Henderson Quotes

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Every country has the government it deserves.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

What we are seeing here is democracy in action.

I cannot run the political machine. I have enough on my hands without that. It is the people's business.

Abstention is a dereliction of citizenship: always cast a vote, if only to cast stones at the most hated.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

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

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Although universal suffrage may not be a panacea for all social problems, it does have a profound bearing on the democratic development and governance of a place.

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

I will do my best to try to unite the country. To invite people from the south and east to the government. This is exactly what people need - to participate in the government of their country.

I was always interested in politics.

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

I don't care if you're a liberal icon or a conservative icon. If you are not willing to be active in your democracy and do what is necessary to deal with our problems, I think you should be voted out.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

You can't afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.