Quotes About Referendum

People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard.

La vergüenza de la rendición francesa del sanjacato (distrito provincial) de Alejandreta —incluido Musa Dag— es una de las historias en buena parte no desveladas de la segunda guerra mundial. El temor a que Turquía se uniera al Eje alemán como había hecho en la guerra de 1914-1918 llevó a Francia a aceptar un referéndum en Alejandreta de modo que los habitantes armenios y turcos pudieran elegir su nacionalidad.

South Carolina did not overturn its ban on interracial marriage until 1998, and even then 38 percent of voters opposed the referendum.

Poland was the first country to give Ukraine diplomatic recognition, the day after the independence referendum of 1 December 1991.

Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

I absolutely think that David Cameron should stay, whatever the result of the referendum, and I hope that he will stay for the full second term which he was elected to serve.

If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

The combatants, 'monocled and bespatted', mounted a horse-drawn carriage and rode in triumph down Constitution Hill, the Mall and Trafalgar Square. Speaking as imperial grand prior of the League, Hamilton reportedly told journalists that the organisation 'views with unabashed antipathy all forms of democracy, especially the referendum'. 'We oppose anything that is common, whether it be consultation of the common people or the Common Market.

What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it back with a few amendments and say we will have another go. You can't do that and I am not going to get drawn into speculating the way forward because I don't intend to lose the referendum.

The country is polarised between those who would pursue a hard Brexit, which is where the prime minister is, and Remain.

If Mississippians ever decide we should change our flag, and at some point they might, it should only be done by a vote of the people.

Anyone who seriously wants to keep Scotland in the U.K. must seek to stop the rise of the SNP, not to fuel and encourage it.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

In 2011, Boris Johnson, then London's mayor, saw the downside when the capital's fringes went on the rampage for several days, smashing up shops and burning cars, looting what they could not have. Five years later Britain's left-behinds vetoed London's economic interests in the Brexit referendum.

Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.

Speaking to people in all parts of the country, it has become clear to me that there is a definite appetite for the option to reject Theresa May's Brexit and hold a referendum.

I believe that Theresa May is going to end up with a botched Brexit that will satisfy no one and make sure that calls for a people's vote on the final Brexit deal will only get louder.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.