Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Carl Icahn

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Ai Weiwei

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

David Brock

I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

Benazir Bhutto

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

Dennis Chavez

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

Bill Moyers

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own

Bill Moyers

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

Matthias Platzeck

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

Daniel Ortega

We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

Benjamin Franklin

What good shall I do this day?

Aung San Suu Kyi

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

Jim Kolbe

Through free trade, we have exported our principles, as well as our products - sharing America's freedom and democracy with the world,

Richard Holbrooke

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

Lionel Jospin

like a thunderbolt ... particularly worrying for France and for our democracy.

Brian Eno

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brigitte Bardot

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Brad Henry

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Jamie Dimon

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.