Democracy Quotes

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

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

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.