Democracy Quotes

Democracy needs a moral compass.

If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.

Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada’s values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

My heart beats red, white, and blue. And with patriotism it aches Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights But in particular, cupcakes

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher.

In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.