Democracy Quotes · Page 191

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

— Robert Kagan

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

— Ron Paul

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that…

— Indira Gandhi

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

— Tom Stoppard

Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.

— Smriti Irani

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity…

— Rory Stewart

It is clear to me that Democrats want to attack me rather than debate Sen. McCain on important economic issues facing the…

— Phil Gramm

I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support,…

— Larry Diamond

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the…

— James Madison

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely…

— Juan Manuel Santos

The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls,…

— Khaled Mashal

We need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the…

— Eric Holder

What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,…

— Henry Giroux

In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work…

— Noam Chomsky

“Beware the one-party state: the parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic…

— Timothy Snyder

All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small 'd.' I believe in democracy,…

— Bernie Sanders

The states have the authority to change this voting system for president, right now, in fact, if they wanted, on an emergency…

— Jill Stein

Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who…

— Ronald Reagan

Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much…

— Noam Chomsky

The fact of the matter is, Obama and the Democrats did a number on Mitt Romney's reputation and his character and his…

— Rush Limbaugh

As conservatives, we cannot just concede education over to the Democrats. We really need to be actively involved. And that's why I've…

— Darryl Glenn

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

— Elizabeth Drew

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

— Carles Puigdemont

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

— Allen West

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season,…

— Edward Brooke

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

— Edward Abbey

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

— Joshua Wong

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

— Amartya Sen

It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President polarizing after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years…

— Jeffrey C Stewart

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

— David Brock

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Secretary of State, maybe they [Republicans] would consider Steve Hadley for that job.

— George Stephanopoulos

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

— Indira Gandhi

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

— Anatole France