Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Pepper

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

To reform to move toward a direct democracy, I don't know how you would do that. If there is the technology there, maybe this is the next step.

Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Bharati Mukherjee

The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.

Condoleezza Rice

to lead the region in promoting democracy, as it has done in pursuit of peace.

Ludwig von Mises

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Mwai Kibaki

I would like to congratulate all of you for participating peacefully in this historic occasion, ... This is a big step in the democracy of our nation.

will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy .

We invite the public to speak. That's democracy in action, ... But I will not have any more recommendations to the board.

Warren Christopher

Without a free and independent media, true democracy is unattainable.

Hugo Chavez

Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.

Hu Jintao

We must push for international configuration of multi-polarity and democracy in international relations,

Jose Barroso

We haven't ground to a halt but we have to respect the pace of democracy in each country. We hope that they will come up with a solution for stability in Germany because stability in Germany means stability for Europe too.

Rory Stewart

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Ayad Allawi

We are adamant that democracy is going to prevail, it's going to win in iraq and this is where terrorists are trying to hurt us and trying to undermine us.

Daniel Fried

Our interests in security and our interests in democracy are indivisible,

My revolution shows that the pyramid has overturned. Social democracy is at the top of my pyramid.

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Drew Carey

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Coretta Scott King

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Dario Fo

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Dick Gregory

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Amartya Sen

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value

Alexis Tsipras

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

Alexis Tsipras

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Anatole France

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Andrew Vachss

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.