Democracy Quotes

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

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

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

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

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

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.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.