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You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

— Jovenel Moise

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

— Geert Wilders

Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that would make…

— Anne Applebaum

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must…

— Y. C. James Yen

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

— George Soros

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

— Woodrow Wilson

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

— Ted Yoho

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment.

— Aristotle