“Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.” — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world,… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“Democracies can't function if their citizens don't strive, at least some of the time, to inhabit a common space, a space where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that, look, we're in a period of democratic deficit, democratic recession. There are fewer democracies in the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many… — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Financially supporting the self determination of democracies keeps the U.S. safer and protects the rest of the world. — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
“the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The EU can lead the world toward more humane technology. But doing so requires thinking more broadly about reining in social media… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I don't think we can have democracies that work where most of the people are not benefiting economically, where most of the… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The events of January 6 fit into a broader authoritarian movement across the world, which is attempting to undermine and weaken western democracies. — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when… — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image