Yair Lapid Quotes

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

[Describing America:] Public opinion, which is there omnipotent, is generally right in its aims ...

Free government is government by public opinion. Upon the soundness and integrity of public opinion depends the destiny of democracy.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Where the government is a government of the people, it is essential that the history be a history of the people. The history of a democracy ought not to be an Iliad.

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

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

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

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

All for the People and All by the People; Nothing About the People Without the People - That is Democracy!

The voice of the people must be heeded.

I trust the American people. They almost always get it right …