Attention Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

— Ibrahim Babangida

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a…

— Zephyr Teachout

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

— Jesse Ventura

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

— Nelson Mandela

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

— Dar Williams

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they…

— Calvin Coolidge

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

— John C. Calhoun

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

— Walter Ulbricht

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

— Art Spander

“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.”

— Steven Magee