Democracy Quotes

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

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.

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.

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

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.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

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.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.