Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are nearing three months on strike. We have a duty to send this to the membership for a vote. It's democracy at its finest. The strikers at Boeing have the final say on whether to keep striking or not.

We expected that with electoral democracy there would be a trickle down of positive effects. That did not happen.

Jim Nelson

We don't think it's a partisan issue. A handful of people wanted to kill it for some reason, and the rest of democracy had to suffer.

Ricardo Lagos

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

They're fine people. I understand what they're going through. This is the world of democracy.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.

Harold Koh

In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle the press.

Nadine Gordimer

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

If you're going to go down this path of encouraging democracy, then to a very large extent you just suck it up.

If you look at democracy in the United States, you will see that it took many, many, many years to develop.

Imran Khan

The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.

Imran Khan

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Harry Belafonte

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

But what I have to say to people who might come forward is that one of the great things about our democracy is freedom of the press.

Ibrahim Rugova

This is a big day for Kosovo. These are the first free elections in free Kosovo and they are an important step toward freedom, independence and democracy for Kosovo.

They think we are propaganda for democracy. They want to shut us up. But they can't shut me up,

Richard Boucher

We're very disappointed that Pakistan has taken another turn away from democracy rather than as we had hoped a step towards democracy,

Bernie Sanders

Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We're proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

We don't really have a representative democracy if we don't have participation of most of our people.

Michelle Bachelet

Together we recovered democracy for Chile. Now I invite you to be a part of another historic moment by electing Chile's first ever woman president. Let's make history.

Chen Shui-bian

The whole world is watching Taiwan's democracy, and the 23 million people of Taiwan will get a thumbs up from the world.

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.

We feel you are a stain on our democracy.

Warren Christopher

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

The test of democracy is not this election, the test is in the day after when you have to start enacting policy.

Karl Marx

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Russian public opinion, when it looks at the United States policy in Azerbaijan, can not ignore the fact that the United States has a desire not in favor of democracy but in favor of profits and geopolitical domination.

David Kennedy

Syria has been on the wrong side of history. Increasingly, the rest of the Middle East is moving towards democracy and freedom. On the other hand, Syria has always supported terror.

It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.