Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

— Lester Bangs

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are…

— Steve Earle

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

— Martina Navratilova

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

— Jason Katims

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has…

— Ravish Kumar

Our system of government, our form of democracy, would not work for China, just like China's system would not work for us.

— Neil Bush

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The…

— Terry Pratchett

A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a…

— Joseph Beuys

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and…

— William Shakespeare

“Bribery quickly became an integral part of the Russian way of doing business, and the expense of buying a government official was considered the…

— David Satter

Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts in a…

— Loretta Lynch

It was the BJP that betrayed me when one of its members made the Rs 150-crore bribery allegation against me without evidence.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation,…

— Denis Kearney

“What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took…

— Jeff Sharlet

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only…

— Michael Musto