Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Bill Vaughan

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

David Anderson

I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.

Fox has been a disappointment. He has not been a total failure. But all of a sudden we find that some of the instruments that make democracy possible are not working.

Ayad Allawi

Freedom and democracy are great goals we should achieve, ... We have great duties to face and stand up to.

But after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about, is people will have differences of opinion.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Historically, governments that fail to recognize property rights soon fail in the recognition of human rights, ... If Americans can't be secure in their property rights, our democracy starts to crumble.

I don't think you can sell democracy at the point of an M-16. We're just trying to force it down their throats.

For the victims it's extremely difficult but that's the way democracy works.

Eric Thomas

If it's good for China, opening up and encouraging democracy and so on, why isn't it good for Cuba?

If three months ago, I had some doubts, ... The rollback of democracy is continuing, the economic and social situation is worsening and the government is doing nothing to improve these things.

I wouldn't talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.

Jonathan Moyo

If this was a proper functioning democracy this government would have been kicked out long ago,

Jimmy Carter

There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom,

Eugene Debs

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Blaise Pascal

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Corazon Aquino

Maybe this is one way of telling them how much it means not only to me but to all of us who love our democracy and who are searching for the truth.

Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy.

Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to influence state law. Little old me spoke and I was heard. It?s democracy in action.

David K. Shipler

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Joseph Nye

She did a good job of explaining what has been a veiled policy, ... She has a vision of democracy in the Middle East as a means of eliminating terrorism, but there is an inadequate roadmap for implementing that strategy. We just didn't hear about it.

Archibald MacLeish

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.