Democracy Quote by Manmohan Singh

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

— Frank Gehry

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

Forcing some countries to accept democracy is something that should not be done.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

— Edward Abbey

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

— Jesse Helms

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

— James Bovard

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the…

— David Lloyd George

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

— Mahathir Mohamad

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Frances Moore Lappé

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

— Winston Churchill

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

— Anne Applebaum