Christine Mathews Quotes

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

In an election, there are no kings.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

If we could, somehow, get a vote of the people of Tennessee and have it result properly, it would be worth more to us than a battle gained. How long before we can get such a vote?

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

Every single election in every country has a component of a referendum in it.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

If you ever doubt that the people are the boss in a democracy, run for office. Even the President is a hired hand.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

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

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.