Democracy Quotes

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

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.

The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

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

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

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.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

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

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.