Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate White

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

Hunter S. Thompson

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Howard Rheingold

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

How this gets handled will determine much about our dream, of having democracy in an Islamic country, reinforcing one another.

Hillary Clinton

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Hillary Clinton

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Herbert Croly

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Irving Babbitt

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Irving Babbitt

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Harry Belafonte

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Imran Khan

The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.

Imran Khan

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

They have seven months to listen to us, to the voters, and to do the right thing. The people have spoken. This is what democracy looks like.

Jesse Jackson

It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience.

Louis Susman

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

Jon Stewart

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

Pierre Corneille

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Pete Domenici

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Phillip E. Johnson

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Lewis H. Lapham

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Leon Wieseltier

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,

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.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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