“The reality of a democracy is that the political party with a majority in Parliament has the mandate to run the country for a selected number of years because of popular choice - that is the nature of good democracy. "The other political parties are left as opposition parties as alternative Government.”
Parliamentary speech, 5 August 2003
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Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)

Quoted by C. P. Scott in his diary (3 April 1917), in Trevor Wilson (ed.), The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928 (London: Collins, 1970), p. 274
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“Political distance among political parties of the right and left.”
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)

Source: Commissions and Omissions by Indian Presidents and Their Conflicts with the Prime Ministers Under the Constitution: 1977-2001, P.184.

"The Situation Is Not Easy" by Lally Weymouth in Newsweek (26 April 2010) http://www.newsweek.com/id/236580/output/print

Source: Democracy and freedom. 1919, p. 44; Cited in: Wood & Wood (2004, 78).