Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Allen

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Silvan Shalom

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Shami Chakrabarti

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Joseph Estrada

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Kobe Bryant

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Scott Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism.

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.

Russell Brand

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

Russell Brand

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Pierre Corneille

The worst of all States is the democratic State.