Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Chen Shui-bian

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Bob Brown

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

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.

Che Guevara

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Che Guevara

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Ai Weiwei

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

Jim Kolbe

Through free trade, we have exported our principles, as well as our products - sharing America's freedom and democracy with the world,

Bill Moyers

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own

Bill Moyers

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Carl Icahn

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

John Conyers

We've got a tremendous legacy to fulfill. You can't maintain a democracy and an empire simultaneously. Rosa, you taught me that.

Matthias Platzeck

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

Daniel Ortega

We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

We see Turkey as a very successful example of democracy in the Islamic world. It is a very good example for us.

Cindy Sheehan

That's democracy. He should be doing the will of the people.

Richard Boucher

expanding economic opportunity and democracy (and) respect for the rule of law.

Laura Bush

The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood.

The Mexican public is disappointed with their leaders because they hoped democracy would solve all their problems and it hasn't. Democracy was oversold to people.

Their example is an inspiration to all who share the universal values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law, ... This is a document of which the Iraqis and the rest of the world can be proud.

George W. Bush

Their efforts are a tribute to democracy and an example that difficult problems can be solved peacefully through debate, negotiation and compromise.

Winston Churchill

Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.

Boris Yeltsin

It's not democracy when a dictator is walking around with a sword in his hand. This is inadmissible.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

Ciaran Hinds

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

They have seven months to listen to us, to the voters, and to do the right thing. The people have spoken. This is what democracy looks like.

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.

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,