Quotes About Referendums

#1. There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

Theresa May

#2. Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

Martin Schulz

#3. I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

Cate Blanchett

#4. There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.

David Cross

#5. I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

Martin Schulz

#6. Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all political camps who like to oversimplify things.

Martin Schulz

#7. I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them.

Roger Stone

#8. LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"
American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

A.E. Samaan

#9. The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

Joss Stone

#10. Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That's too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.

Tracy Guzeman

#11. Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum?

Arun Jaitley

#12. Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

Brittany Snow

#13. The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

Geoff Hoon

#14. Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

A.E. Samaan

#15. Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Jorge Luis Borges

#16. In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water but of sins, continually inundates the earth, and out of this deluge very few escape. Scarcely anyone is saved.

Alphonsus Liguori

#17. You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Franz Kafka

#18. Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#19. Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].

Ken Livingstone

#20. The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

Sylvester Stallone

#21. They're all true. They all could have happened.

Ellen Sussman