Democracy Quotes

• Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Democracy

• I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility
  • Enterprise

• What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Power
  • Democracy

• The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Democracy
  • Protect
  • Kashmir

• One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Future
  • Question
  • Possible

• Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • School
  • Power
  • Democracy

• The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

  

  William Greider
  • People
  • Problem
  • Modern

• We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Path
  • Impossible
  • Capitalism

• As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

  

  Norman Granz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Mean
  • Collaboration

• I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Numbers
  • Models

• Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Obtain

• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  

  George Will
  • Democracy
  • Accepting
  • Popularity

• Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.

  

  Hallie Flanagan
  • Democracy
  • Won

• Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Political
  • Development
  • Economic

• For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • May
  • Political
  • Realization

• Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Democracy
  • Perspective
  • Tolerance

• Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Strategy

• Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Country
  • Democracy

• We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.

  

  Norman Braman
  • Democracy
  • Vote
  • Tell

• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Democracy
  • Mediocrity

• I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

  

  Clare Short
  • Truth
  • Democracy
  • British

• I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

  

  John le Carre
  • Age
  • Democracy
  • Maturity

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