Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

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

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.

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.

John McCain

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

John Oliver

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

John Dewey

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

John Dewey

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

Joe Greene

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

James Patterson

Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy.

James Lovelock

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Louis D. Brandeis

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

Lord Hailsham

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Malachy McCourt

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Fred Thompson

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up

Henry Spencer

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Hazel Blears

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

Karen Armstrong

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Katharine Weymouth

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Leonard Cohen

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

Jimmy Carter

Trust is very much a part of our democracy.

Lord Acton

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Lord Acton

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

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.