When our government is spoken of as some menacing…

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things…

— Robert A. Dahl

“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate,…

— Kenneth Minogue

I think there is not enough understanding of the fact that in a democracy how you treat the security of the minority must be…

— Shabana Azmi

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of…

— Jean Giraudoux

Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of…

— Barack Obama

I delivered a clear and forceful message that although we recognize Russia's intelligence gathering will sometimes take place even if we don't like it,…

— Barack Obama

“The OED defines democracy as: “Government by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people….” The legitimate…

— Joseph Befumo

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite…

— Anonymous

“In a democracy government is the God.”

— Amit Kalantri

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy.…

— Jacob Zuma

Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who…

— Arundhati Roy

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't…

— Ayelet Shaked

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists…

— Frank Zappa

The first lesson of politics or, at least, democracy is that it is a government by the people and for the people, isn't it?…

— Urmila Matondkar

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson