#by the people

I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#am #by the people #elected #first #first lady

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ↗

— Will Rogers

#being #by the people #democracy #does #four

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#error #expressed #great #instinctive #people

I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#absolute #australia #been #best #by the people

Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#anywhere #by the people #circumstances #conditions #elections

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. ↗

— Frank Norris

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If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#body #by the people #catastrophic #continue #elected

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conferred #congress #constitution #grants #i

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comes #democracy #government #greek #literally

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

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