Democracy Quotes
That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'
All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.
The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.
My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.
I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.
A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.
For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.
If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.
Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.
Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?