Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom Copy Share Image
India and the United States are the world's two largest democracies, and they are both multicultural democracies to boot. It only makes… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even… — David Frum Copy Share Image
We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The events of January 6 fit into a broader authoritarian movement across the world, which is attempting to undermine and weaken western democracies. — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“Observing the volatile nature of the new democracies, I came vividly to see how unimportant a part of democracy are elections, in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“But it is this distinct perception of the future, founded upon a sound judgment and an enlightened experience, which is most frequently… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before. — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
“This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns.” — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought. — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
