Tony Abbott Quotes

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.

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

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

We will vote for the country we want; we will vote for the future we want; we will vote for the politics we want; and we will vote to put this corrupt government cartel out of business and out of business immediately.

Our democracy works because the parties air and debate their differences in public.

Every voter in Ukraine should have their say on the future they want for their country.

I do believe Hong Kong's 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

We'd be very happy to work with any government of the day which the people in India elect.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

Ultimately, it is the people who judge, through elections, whether someone governs well or not. It's not up to other politicians to define and determine our colleagues.

We're going to fight for every vote in every state. We're going to make a real difference in people's lives.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

Not voting is one of the worst things that could happen in our community. You can vote for whoever you want to, but choosing not to vote spits in the face of our ancestors who fought for our right to vote.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.