(45 quotes found)
“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.”
Tom Stoppard
“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
George Jean Nathan
“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”
Alexander Woollcott
“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”
Walter H. Judd
“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.”
Jay Leno
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
Charles de Gaulle
“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
“Ideas control the world.”
James A. Garfield
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