Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

We can change the direction of the country with our vote.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

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.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

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

The vote controls everything that you do.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.

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.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

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.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Democracy is more than just election day.