There exists no more democratic institution than the market

The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions,…

— Thomas Sowell

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the…

— Chris Patten

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street…

— Bernie Sanders

They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary.

— Meyer London

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

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…

— Karl Marx

A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By…

— Kevin Mattson

All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be…

— Michael Parenti

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there…

— Ludwig von Mises

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and…

— George W. Bush

Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of reaching compromises…

— George Packer

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can…

— Garry Kasparov

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American…

— Henry Giroux