Democracy Quotes
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If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.
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Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.
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Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
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Democracy cannot thrive without freedom of the press.
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But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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They are not, and almost everybody accepts this, entitled to engage in seeking to disrupt the way our democracy operates by violence or threats of violence.
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Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
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Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
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I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.
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The U.S. does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
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Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.
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In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.
