Democracy Quotes

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

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.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

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 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.