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We have had a long wait for democracy.

— Chen Shui-bian

Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed…

— Arundhati Roy

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed…

— Arundhati Roy

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those…

— Frank Carlucci

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

— Debbie Stabenow

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

— Daniel Suarez

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

— Roger Nash Baldwin

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

— Pearl S. Buck

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

— Frances Moore Lappé