Democracy Quotes · Page 13

We deserve elections we can trust.

— Jill Stein

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

— John Adams

We've got to protect democracy.

— Lindsay Hoyle

Voting is a civic sacrament.

— Theodore Hesburgh

We have to protect our democracy.

— Deb Haaland

This country is a republic.

— Rick Santelli

Democracy is about criticism.

— Danny Glover

A Republic is its people.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

— Dennis Chavez

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

— Mario Cuomo

“Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.”

— Bryant McGill

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

— Vaclav Klaus

Brexit was, at its heart, about democracy and sovereignty.

— Steve Hilton

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

— Mary Parker Follett

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

— Bill Moyers

“The stench of deception permeates the air of our great American democracy--wretched.”

— Will Leamon

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?

— Richard Engel

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

— Michael Portillo

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

— John F. Kennedy

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

— Joseph Stalin

I think the Democrats are actually worried he (Obama) may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims.

— Rick Santorum

No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.

— Mara Liasson

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

— Olusegun Obasanjo

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Dozens of Democrats appear on Fox News each month. If it were not worth their time and energy to debate, converse and…

— Harris Faulkner

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent…

— Roberto Unger

There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public…

— Lee Kuan Yew

There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next…

— Noam Chomsky

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell…

— Ang Lee

Our ability to participate in government, to elect our leaders and to improve our lives is contingent upon our ability to access…

— Stacey Abrams

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations,…

— Barack Obama

In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results…

— Cassius Dio

Socialism is the democratisation of every level of society, or it is nothing. It is based on an understanding that the concentration…

— Owen Jones

Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation…

— Bill Moyers

The problems that exist on Wall Street today go to the center of a debate in this country about wealth and democracy.…

— Dennis Kucinich

Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.…

— John Adams

“Well, our economic system "works," it just works in the interests of the masters, and I'd like to see one that works…

— Noam Chomsky