Democracy Quote by Hugh Laurie

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

— George Bernard Shaw

What we should be doing is opening up this process much more, having a vote of the Legislature, the City Council, the state Legislature…

— Anthony D Weiner

You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you…

— Jill Stein

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations…

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and…

— Michael Manley

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't…

— Dorothy Thompson

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

— William Hague

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is…

— Bernie Sanders

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

— Edward Snowden

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

— Molly Ivins

It's a beautiful thing when democracy prevails.

— Marianne Williamson

“The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts.”

— Charbel Tadros