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You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.