Accepting Quote by Bill Vaughan

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

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of…

— Aldous Huxley

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

— Ronald Reagan

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate…

— Walter Lippmann

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Some vested interests have an inclination to tarnish the image of those in politics and there have been occasions when some people have fallen…

— Pinarayi Vijayan

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— David Remnick

It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt