Democracy Quotes
When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.
2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.
It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.
This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.
For you I am neither the PM or CM. Our bond is a bond of affection and I am your sevak.
The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.
The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.
A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.
Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly.
I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.
We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.
Politicians don't want democracy here in America, why would they want it in the Middle East?
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.
The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.
Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Plainly elites in America don't want democracy. And why should they? Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.
We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.
Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.
In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on.
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.
When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.
The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.
There is no doubt our democracy can be very messy and America does remain a sharply divided country.
We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.
