Democracy Quotes
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It shows democracy at work, and hopefully what we just did eliminates any problems in the future with how we count our ballots.
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
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I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.
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We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I say ranked 59th, it means that in the percentage of women, in our national parliament, our National Congress, is now ranks 59th from the top. That means 58 countries have more women than we do in percentage wise.
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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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For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
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We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.
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The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.
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Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.
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In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.
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I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.
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Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.
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Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
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We welcome him to this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him.
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
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Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
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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.
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
