Common Quote by Johan Renck

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

— Winston Churchill

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

— Vladimir Putin

You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of…

— Zephyr Teachout

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how…

— John Ralston Saul

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to…

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats.…

— Peter Viereck

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism,…

— Fran Lebowitz

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

— James Bryant Conant

It's a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is... its rich diversity.

— Valerie Jarrett

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

— Noam Chomsky