A Quote by Alexis Tsipras

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Alexis Tsipras

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Alexis Tsipras
Greek - Politician
Born: July 28, 1974

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

George Monbiot

I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.

Marine Le Pen

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

Alexis Tsipras

Jeremy Corbyn has proved popular with young voters in part because he has promised an end to austerity.

Nick Hornby

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

George Monbiot

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Mahmoud Abbas

The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

Maurice Strong

I think that we have refined greatly our notions of sovereignty in the EU. Its members consider themselves to be sovereign governments, but they have ceded a part of their sovereignty to the Union level, and their sovereignty is now penetrated by EU law.

Mary Robinson

If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

Yanis Varoufakis

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.

Abraham Lincoln

I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white world. I mean, Native American tribalism sovereignty, even the political fight for sovereignty and cultural sovereignty is a very us versus them. And I think a lot of people in this country, especially European Americans and those descended from Europeans don't see themselves as tribal.

Sherman Alexie

Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.

Matteo Salvini

The EU treaties clearly promote an alliance of national states that, as far as possible, maintain their own responsibilities. There is no mention of a centralized state of Europe in the treaties. The EU Commission's politicking, however, is proof of a certain allergy against this principle of national states and national responsibilities.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

Woodrow Wilson

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Victor Hugo

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