Democracy Quotes

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.