Cherish Quote by Condoleezza Rice

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

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go…

— Aleksandr Lebed

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

— Anonymous

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

— David Remnick

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

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

It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any…

— Bill Maher

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Jovenel Moise

If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you…

— Ishmael

If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

— Tony Benn