Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ehud Barak

What happened at the site was a test, and not a simple one, for democracy and a red light on the road to anarchy,

Through these steps, stability, peace and democracy can be restored in Nepal.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Jalal Talabani

we will never surrender to the terrorists who despise democracy and distort religion. Never.

The United States has long stood for expansion of global trade and consolidating democracy.

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Greg Mortenson

We're trying to plug in democracy. You can't do that. You can't just tell people to vote. You have to put in education, and land ownership.

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

Colum McCann

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

Colin Powell

Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.

Dario Fo

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

Claude Pepper

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

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.

Cullen Hightower

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

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.

Bernard Kouchner

we have been making real progress, significant steps toward stability and democracy. ... The world did not intervene to make Kosovo safe for revenge and intolerance.

Vandana Shiva

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

Donna Brazile

There is no place in our democracy for faulty voting equipment, long lines at the polls, untrained poll workers and any forms of chads,

Richard Boucher

There is no logic to supporting the King. He has done a travesty to democracy.

Richard Holbrooke

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

Jamie Dimon

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Edward Abbey

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Aristotle

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Aristotle

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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.

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,

Warren Christopher

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

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.