Democracy Quotes

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

I will protect democracy with my life.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

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.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

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.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.