Democracy Quote by Joe Lieberman

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

What makes America's election system unique is the fact that even when elections are close, we find a resolution, which leads to the peaceful…

— Mercedes Schlapp

An election is an opportunity for a new consensus.

— Martin O'Malley

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our…

— Tim Soutphommasane

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

— Reid Hoffman

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an…

— Jim Hightower

What other, newer democracies find relatively easy - conducting an election, the counting of votes, the peaceful transition of power - seems to have…

— Barkha Dutt

In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose.…

— Salman Khurshid

We have had a long wait for democracy.

— Chen Shui-bian

I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority…

— Gloria Steinem

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has…

— Gloria Steinem

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing…

— Anonymous