Austerity Quote by Alexis Tsipras

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

— Meg Greenfield

“People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is…

— Terry Goodkind

“One particular form of this logical argument is directed against a too naïve version of liberalism, of democracy, and of the principle that the…

— Karl R. Popper

The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every…

— Lawrence Lessig

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all…

— David Lloyd George

Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy…

— Alexis Tsipras

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

— Alexis Tsipras

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based…

— George Packer

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

— George Monbiot

“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner   The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent. In the…

— Lance T. Stewart

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“but if the bank is stronger than the sword or the sceptre of popular sovereignty, the end will be the end of democracy.”

— Anonymous

“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States…

— Mark R. Levin

“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime…

— Sophie Wahnich