Democracy Quotes
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
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A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.
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I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.
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I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
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My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
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In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
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Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.
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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
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No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.
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The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.
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In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.
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It is already apparent that the current system is proving unwieldy and liable to present MPs with a potentially unsuitable leader while the changes under discussion will severely restrict democracy within the party - clearly an undesirable move for a modern twenty-first century party.
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My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
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Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly a democracy without classes. To do so will require the efforts of us all-teachers, administrators, taxpayers and statesmen. Education is a social process, perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country; it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today.
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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
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The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
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Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
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What does matter is this: the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy, and our intelligence agencies have concluded that they will do so again.
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Our sages in the great constitutional convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.
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The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
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In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.
