Democracy Quotes

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

The struggle for equality is really a struggle for democracy, and that's why it's a struggle for all the population.

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.

The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

It's easy to design expensive products. But there's that product democracy that I believe very strongly in to make something affordable for almost anybody that would want to use it.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.