Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Hugo Chavez

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

George Bernard Shaw

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

George Bernard Shaw

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Jimmy Carter

Some states have passed abominable laws that are a disgrace to democracy,

Some people do not want democracy. (However) we are determined to have these primaries today.

Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed,

Democracy and freedom are what extend the scope of peace and security.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

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