Democracy Quotes · Page 123

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

— Jacob Zuma

Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

— Edward Kennedy

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

— Henry Rollins

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

— Bashar al-Assad

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate…

— Alexander Hamilton

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

— Elizabeth Drew

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

— Geoff Mulgan

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic…

— Chen Shui-bian

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for…

— Adam Cohen

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the…

— Natan Sharansky

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a…

— Dora Russell

Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as…

— Achille Mbembe

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything,…

— Vladimir Lenin

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you…

— DeForest Soaries

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society…

— Ronald Reagan

Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian,…

— Terence McKenna

I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy…

— Nouriel Roubini

The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a…

— Mike Medavoy

I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to…

— Ayelet Waldman

Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most…

— Howard Zinn

“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at…

— Thomas Paine

“The constitution which emerged from the Assembly after six months of debate—it was passed on July 31, 1919, and ratified by the…

— Anonymous

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

— Katie Pavlich

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

— Ron Kind

The first time I voted I was 53-years-old. I never got involved in it before the 2015 general election. I voted Labour.

— Shaun Ryder

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History…

— Zephyr Teachout

I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the…

— Barack Obama

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

— Nirmala Srivastava

“In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.”

— Brian Halweil

[Democrats] in their frustration at having lost, they've thrown away the camouflage now.

— Rush Limbaugh

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

— Malaak Shabazz

I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign…

— Aaron Schock

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Independents come back, usually right before an election. They tune out, and then they start refocusing.

— Ronna McDaniel

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

— Elliott Abrams

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a…

— Joshua Wong