Popular Support Quotes

I know of no better or safer human tribunal than the people.

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.

In the absence of formal written platforms, the antecedents of candidates become their platforms. On just such platforms all our earlier and better Presidents were elected.

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the person who is a serious contender to become head of state. They want their national leader - the tribal chief - to look like them, to live like them, to reflect their values.

No government, no head of government can last if the people feel that this government is not going to defend the security of the country.

The respect of the American people for the Congress has been increased. They can see the Congress as a vigilant Congress.

Legitimacy [of governments] is not bought by force; it is earned by the consensus of the people.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

The nation needs a statesman who fears not to meet and who knows how to sway immense masses of the working classes.

When you go to war, you have to build bipartisan support and then you have to sustain it.

I don't want to be president if I have to win by outrage. I don't want to just win. I want to govern, and not just by executive order.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

I never feared clamor. I have never been afraid of the people, for by them I have always been sustained. And when I have all the truth, argument, fact and reason on my side, clamor nor affront, nor animosities can drive me from my purpose.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

I am, as you know, only the servant of the people.

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

Congress is a party whose both hands are with the common people.

The Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the same in some ways ... To stay in power you've got to give people a good life and improve the economy.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.