Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shami Chakrabarti

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Serj Tankian

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

Joseph Estrada

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Kobe Bryant

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Scott Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

There's probably some question on the Democratic side on whether they'd prefer it to be an unresolved issue.

Jeremy Corbyn

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

Distributors will send demos so that we, as employees, can try them out, so that we can say 'I've played this' and this is what I thought.

Jeff Minter

Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.

Cuba's future will be determined by Cubans. Our role is to support those working for democratic change.

We're disappointed in this indecisiveness and lack of leadership from the national Democrats and Sherrod Brown, who said he wouldn't run,

We're disappointed in the outcome, but we're pleased to see a relatively strong Democratic performance in an otherwise staunchly Republican district.

We are going to demolish all of them.

We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,

We do not wish to be in a position to prescribe for Nepal, and to prescribe for the people of Nepal in what manner they would go about realizing their democratic aspirations.

Richard Boucher

We're very disappointed that Pakistan has taken another turn away from democracy rather than as we had hoped a step towards democracy,

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

Phil Gramm

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

Mike Huckabee

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Susan Estrich

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

Sir Mix-a-Lot

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

What I would take away from it is, it's still very early and anything can happen in the Democratic race for the nomination.

Bernie Sanders

Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

We don't really have a representative democracy if we don't have participation of most of our people.