Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of…

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we…

— Guido Westerwelle

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a pivotal personal…

— Charles Kennedy

I definitely think America should seek to lead and shape the world and make it safe for liberal democracy. I just don't think military…

— Ro Khanna

Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a…

— Charles Kennedy

Ultimately, it's not our responsibility to turn Afghanistan into a 21st-century, vibrant, economic, liberal democracy with a little L. Our responsibility is to keep…

— Martha McSally

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

— Victor Ponta

The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people to become…

— Jo Swinson

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far…

— Michael Ignatieff

“Liberal democracy was saved only by nuclear weapons.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

— Stanley Hauerwas

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

— Timothy Snyder

For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening…

— John Bellamy Foster