Dan Webster Quotes

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.

We elect these people not to represent their parties but to represent us.

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

There are different ways to get responsive government leaders but one of the more effective ways is to have them democratically elected.

Voters do not decide issues. They decide who will decide issues.

Never you mind about the country, or about the state, or the city, or about the ward. You take care of your precinct.

A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.

The function of a parliamentary democracy, under universal suffrage, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attacks of the people.

One man shall have one vote.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

In England, a Majority of Citizens does not elect the Majority of Representatives.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

Divide the Continent into four Divisions, out of which a certain number of persons should be nominated, and out of that nomination to appoint a Senate

Many people in the UN vote and then go home where nobody votes.

There once was a time when people chose their congressmen. Now congressmen choose their people.

Each county elector makes his own rules

If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.