People's Voice Quotes

The people are always worsted in an election.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

I'm proud of Congress as a body. At the end of the day, we're the people's house, and we should be very mindful that we represent the people.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.

Kings scarcely recognize themselves as mortals, scarcely understand that which pertains to man, except on the day they are made king or on the day they die. On the former day they feign humility and gentleness, in the hope of capturing the voice of the people. On the latter, having death before their eyes, they confess what is a fact, namely that they are wretchedly mortal.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

U. S. A. is the slice of a continent. U. S. A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theaters, a column of stock quotations …a public library full of old newspapers and dog-eared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil. U. S. A. is the world’s greatest river valley fringed with mountains and hills, U. S. A. is a set of big-mouthed officials with too many bank accounts. U. S. A is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery. U. S. A. is the letters at the end of the address when you are away from home. But mostly U. S. A. is the speech of the people.

The problem for a politician of listening to the people, is that they don’t always agree.

If the people desire changes in the highest judicial tribunal in the land, the people can speak with their power to amend their own Constitution.

If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.

Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

The voice of the people must be heeded.

When the people's voice cannot be heard, that's when we make mistakes.

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

Restoring the people's voice in Congress is not just one part of our Better Way agenda, it's the most important part. Unless people are back in the driver's seat, we won't be able to rebuild our military, roll back the red tape, or help our most vulnerable.

We have voted. The people have spoken. It’s just going to take a little while to figure out what we said.

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

Languages are not owned by nations but by the people who use them and make them live.