Country Quote by Andrei Sakharov

We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

— Akbar Ganji

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

— Jeff Van Drew

We want to strengthen democracy.

— Nawaz Sharif

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

— Eugene McCarthy

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

— Noam Chomsky

I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which suits our…

— Jill Stein

Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changing the power relations…

— Henry Giroux

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

— Thomas Carlyle

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is…

— Eugene Jarecki

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and…

— Benazir Bhutto