Democracy Quotes

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

We Jews really don't need any tutoring in democracy.

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want to bring that down.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.

Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

The first official statements of President Asif Ali Zardari's new government have been firm and robust. Pakistan is obviously a renewed democracy.

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

America's objective in the Middle East is to create democracy in the same way that my goal on a first date to feed women.