Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Putin

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

Vladimir Putin

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

Winston Churchill

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Woodrow Wilson

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Yasser Arafat

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

Youssou N'Dour

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy,

Wen Jiabao

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Wendell Willkie

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Warren Buffett

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Walter Cronkite

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Walid Jumblatt

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Samuel Fuller

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Joseph Estrada

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Kobe Bryant

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Scott Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism.

Lee H. Hamilton

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Lee H. Hamilton

Democracy fascinates me.

Lee Harvey Oswald

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

Randall Robinson

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Lewis Mumford

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

Ruhollah Khomeini

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Saul Alinsky

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Ronald Reagan

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Romano Prodi

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Rory Stewart

If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.

Rosa Luxemburg

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

Susan Rice

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.