Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Cronkite

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Werner Herzog

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

Walid Jumblatt

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Samuel Fuller

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Virginia Foxx

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Van Jones

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Vladimir Putin

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

Vladimir Putin

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

William Greider

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

Stephen Colbert

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Thomas Pynchon

But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thomas Jefferson

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Vilfredo Pareto

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Victor Hugo

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Ronald Reagan

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Romano Prodi

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Rory Stewart

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Rosa Luxemburg

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

Susan Rice

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

Susan Rice

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

Susan Estrich

Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.

Susan George

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Pearl S. Buck

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Peter Ustinov

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter L. Berger

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

Peter L. Berger

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Phil Donahue

There is no democracy without dissent.

Pierre Trudeau

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Phylicia Rashad

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Rachel Cohn

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.