Common Quote by Garry Kasparov

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

— Steve Schmidt

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

— Dan Quayle

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is…

— Donald Rumsfeld

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free…

— Donald Tusk

There is a danger in democracy itself.

— Danny Kaye

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

— Gustav Heinemann

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices…

— Tony Benn

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that…

— Friedrich Naumann

The notion that you can duff up a country for three months, pacify it for a bit longer and then miraculously transform it into…

— David Starkey

“The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice.…

— John Dunn

We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its…

— Deeyah Khan

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

— Sergey Karaganov