Democracy Quotes
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.
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All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, 'Politics is your job. It’s not only for the politicians.' And we have an expression in the United States that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen - not President, not Speaker, but citizen.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
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If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
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The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level.
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True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to remove all opposition through the suppression or extermination of the antagonists.
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Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
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While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it's critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day - and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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Democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks.
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Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
