Democracy Quotes
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Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.
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The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
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Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.
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I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
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Democracy, I think, has established itself firmly [In India] and, there is no doubt that, it is one of the irremovable things which we have achieved. But it is facing problems at every stage. I don't think that we can rest on our oars in the maintenance of democracy. Critical times are facing us. There are, there will be, crises, that we will have to face. So constant adjustments of even democracy to changing times, is necessary. But one thing is clear. The idea of democracy and institutions of democracy that we have built up, have survived the test of critical situations.
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We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.
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I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
Chaka Fattah -
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
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In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.
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And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.
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The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
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The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
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Democracy is a good client.
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What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
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Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
