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.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

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.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.