Famous Quotes & Sayings

The next government will have the greatest legitimacy of any administration since the return to democracy in 1982.

It's just one more way the Legislature can have an impact on democracy.

Jesse Jackson

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

Janet Erskine Stuart

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Frank Herbert

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

George Hamilton

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

George H. W. Bush

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

Ha-Joon Chang

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Haile Selassie

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Gustav Heinemann

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

H. G. Wells

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Byron Dorgan

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

Milos Forman

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

For the past five years Thailand has been a democracy only in name.

Ismail Haniyeh

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Gloria Steinem

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

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.

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.

Jacques Chirac

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.