Quotes about democracy
democracy elections free independence kosovo step toward
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. Ibrahim Rugova
democracy propaganda shut
They think we are propaganda for democracy. They want to shut us up. But they can't shut me up,
democracy
You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy. Robert Menzies
democracy impact
It's just one more way the Legislature can have an impact on democracy.
democracy dictator judgment
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so. Harry Emerson Fosdick
democracy politics honest
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken
democracy world lectures
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off! Jeremy Clarkson
democracy leafs figs
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. Florence King
democracy should liberal-democracy
The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended. Flemming Rose
democracy way blind
The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way. Henry Miller
democracy politics scales
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. Gore Vidal
democracy earth republic
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
democracy doe vehicle
One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle. Jacques Chirac
democracy noise
I like the noise of democracy. James Buchanan
democracy politics overpopulation
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Isaac Asimov
democracy internet free-speech
The case for democracy is not esthetic. George Will
democracy voters protect
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
democracy culture ongoing
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. Jim Hightower
democracy needs flags
If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents. Jerrold Nadler
democracy reform would-be
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis. Jean Chretien
democracy indifference intolerance
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. Christopher Lasch
democracy example saint
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example. Christopher Hitchens
democracy too-much culture
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society. Fran Lebowitz
democracy separation frustrating
And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers. George Pataki
democracy viagra election
Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. George Montgomery
democracy belief democratic
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies. Christine Lagarde
democracy favors
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
democracy speech democratization
Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech. Gail Sheehy
democracy want problem
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. Frank Gehry
democracy poor ifs
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor? Ferdinand Marcos
democracy might corporations
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation. Fareed Zakaria
democracy care safe
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV. Ian Mckellen
democracy cuba revolutionary
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. Hugo Chavez