Democracy Quotes

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

Democracy is hard work.

I think that America has to stand with democracy.

[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Syrian people have right to fight for democracy and freedom in their country but they don't need the penetration of foreign elements, fundamentalist ideologies and violence.