Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Dorgan

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

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.

For the past five years Thailand has been a democracy only in name.

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.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

How this gets handled will determine much about our dream, of having democracy in an Islamic country, reinforcing one another.

Kate White

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

Hunter S. Thompson

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Howard Rheingold

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Jacques Chirac

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

Isaac Asimov

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Irving Babbitt

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Irving Babbitt

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Joseph Stalin

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Mike Carey

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Nelson Mandela

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.