Delivering Quote by Mary Robinson

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

— Fidel Castro

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments, if you…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force. It demands…

— Gavin Esler

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

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

— Jacques Maritain

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism,…

— Johnny Carson

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which…

— Beth Simone Noveck

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are…

— David Frum

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the…

— Benito Mussolini

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to…

— Ronald Reagan