Democracy Quotes
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We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.
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Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
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Democracy is something you have to participate in.
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Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
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In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.
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Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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Every year, the White House Correspondents' Dinner inspires two competing varieties of coverage: celebrity-obsessed fawning and angry tirades about how it represents everything twisted about our broken democracy. It doesn't, really.
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Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
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Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
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Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
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I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.
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Proportional representation is a device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.
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Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.
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Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
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We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
