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.

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

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.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.