Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

It's just one more way the Legislature can have an impact on democracy.

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,

Robert Menzies

You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.

there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the region and the world. And they will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy.

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

Anthony Kennedy

This is not chauvinistic, ... Our purpose, our mission is to share democracy with the world.

Corazon Aquino

This is really shocking. It's really a pity to lose our democracy again.

Condoleezza Rice

This is really democracy at work in Iraq, ... And given where they were just a few years ago, having lived in tyranny for all those decades, this is an extraordinary achievement.

The weekly statement, in which the Holocaust was cited, mainly focused on criticizing western democracy.

The United States went into Iraq because we wanted them to be a model for secular democracy. We wanted to dress them up and be our own boutique. And it is fair to say we have not accomplished that.

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.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Milos Forman

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Ismail Haniyeh

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Gloria Steinem

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Mark McKinnon

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Nicholas Sparks

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Neal A. Maxwell

There is no democracy of facts.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Frank Herbert

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.