Government Quote by Kenneth Clarke

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

— Martin Schulz

A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.

— Peter Hitchens

Remember, I'm the guy who didn't want the referendum - I wouldn't have had it if I'd been prime minister. But you have to…

— Ed Miliband

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could…

— Jean Charest

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

— Betsy Hodges

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

— Cate Blanchett

The old politician maintain the chair for a lot of decades. So if we will lose the referendum, this is not a problem for…

— Matteo Renzi

I don't understand why Italians should be bound to Brussels's choices without being able to express themselves through a referendum.

— Matteo Salvini

My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts…

— Jason Brennan

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

— Ambrose Bierce

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

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…

— David Cross