Top 45 Democratic Process Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Democratic Process Quotes from famous people such as Reid Hoffman, Jeff Miller, Kevin de Leon, Steven Spielberg, Eliot Spitzer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

One of the things that happens that's challenging withi

One of the things that happens that’s challenging within the democratic process is that people say, ‘Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.’ And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn’t work that well.
Reid Hoffman
The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.
Jeff Miller
The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.
Kevin de Leon
The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
Steven Spielberg
Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Eliot Spitzer
Either you’re for ending Citizens United, or you’re not. So, if you’re for ending Citizens United, then act like you are against corporations influencing our democratic process.
Rashida Tlaib
What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
Jack Kingston
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it’s the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
John Lewis
Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.
John Negroponte
No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.
Greta Van Susteren
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.
Malcolm Forbes
For more than a century, states have sought to protect the integrity of the democratic process at the state and local level by regulating corporate spending in elections.
Eric Schneiderman
Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.
Jared Polis
Free media is very essential for the democratic process and… development.
Hailemariam Desalegn
We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.
Tom Steyer
The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
Beji Caid Essebsi
We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate.
John Lewis
Even though I grew up and I didn’t always like getting dragged to the meetings or the rallies or the speeches, I developed a very strong respect for participating in a democratic process.
Julian Castro
If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it’s going to get recorded because you don’t know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process.
David E. Sanger
You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.
Marine Le Pen
As governor, I’ll focus on these concrete steps to make it easier to vote and include every community in our democratic process.
Andy Beshear
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai Stevenson I
The problem is that the economy isn’t growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp
When it comes to free speech and participation in the democratic process, our laws should reflect the goal of making it easier for more citizens to engage.
Doug Ducey
You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.
Kevin McCloud
We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
Sarah Palin
Living my life in conservation, I see far greater tragedies and crimes against wildlife than the loss of a few thousand badgers. The real reason so many people are so unsettled by the cull is its sinister reflection on the democratic process, on our government’s attitude to conservation and to science.
Steve Backshall
BSP does not believe in organizing violent protest. It’s a disciplined party and follows democratic process to oppose anti-people policies of government.
Mayawati
Marrying video, sound, and words can create incredibly compelling storytelling, and when you add the political piece, you get a special combination: stories directly impacting the democratic process. It’s a unique responsibility and one I’m passionate about.
Hallie Jackson
There is a democratic process in the party, and that ca

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.
Jeremy Corbyn
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
James Hansen
If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
Abdullah II of Jordan
A louder government with less journalism does not enrich our democratic process.
Ari Melber
I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
Jay Inslee
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.
Ken Loach
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like ‘knight.’
Joshua Foer
I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.
Jejomar Binay
It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it’s going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
Jackie Speier
We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That’s the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It’s not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
Ted Cruz
As transparency campaigner for more than 10 years, I have long had a sense that something was not quite right about the E.U. referendum. I warned back in November 2017 that the leave campaign seemed to be awash with dark money that may have circumvented rules designed to uphold the integrity of our democratic process.
Gina Miller
It weighs on me that I played a pivotal role in setting up a company that I think has done a lot of harm to the democratic process in a lot of countries.
Christopher Wylie
Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn’t want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.
Julian Castro
I don’t think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.
Christopher Wylie