If we don’t have an informed electorate we don’t have a democracy. So I don’t care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I’m just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do 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.
Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
I don’t run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.
It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
I think Hong Kong people’s struggle for democracy is similar to David versus Goliath. But this struggle is not just about me.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
This country has always been run by elite, and it’s an elitist democracy. And that’s not a radical concept. It’s elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don’t talk – really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.
We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn’t affect our democracy and I wasn’t knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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.
Being ‘at the mercy of legislative majorities’ is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we’re doing it, is teach and learn.
All of my novels are democracies.
We live in an ‘eventocracy’. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.
Britain has been responsible for the undermining of democracy, turning a blind eye to abuses by its allies, using extraordinary rendition to get around the rule of law, passing over the denial of individual liberties to dissidents, and the evasion of the dismal situation for religious minorities.
‘Coriolanus’ deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I’ve been talking about politics so much because of ‘Borgen.’ It’s a nice bridge.
The stories from Iran’s present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.
Public corruption is the FBI’s top criminal priority. The threat – which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials – strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush’s belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.
Among the responsibilities of each citizen in a participatory democracy is keeping ourselves sufficiently informed so that we can participate effectively, argue our positions honorably, and hopefully, forge sufficient consensus to understand each other and then to govern.
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.
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.
The fate of our democracy rests on our ability to protect voting rights for all citizens.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.
There’s not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we’re working with have a say in how it’s working.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
