Democracy Quote by David Remnick

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position…

— Alexander Hamilton

Democracy is not perfect.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

— Hugo Chavez

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

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

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

— Edmund Burke

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

— Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is…

— Winston Churchill