Democracy Quotes
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
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Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.
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iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
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Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.
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A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
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We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
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The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.
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There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
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In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
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We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!
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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.
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We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
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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.
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Democracy doesn't mean I always get my way. It doesn't mean we always get what we want.
