The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been…

When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand…

— Richard J. Foster

No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than…

— Nick Clooney

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the…

— Alain Badiou

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally…

— John Allen Fraser

“Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the…

— Tom Sharpe

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah...…

— Jim Bolger

One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell…

— Quentin Bryce

Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in…

— Vladimir Putin

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for…

— Vaclav Havel

“He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell…

— Aravind Adiga

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In…

— Martin Schulz

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of…

— Elizabeth May

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

— Michael Portillo

No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war…

— Bill Clinton

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and…

— Sharad Pawar