Democracy Quote by Molly Ivins

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time…

— Rich Galen

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.

— Wesley Clark

I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah,…

— Mike Huckabee

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't…

— Marian Wright Edelman

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some…

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Frank Gehry

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing…

— Arianna Huffington

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

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century…

— Susan George

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many…

— Richard Armitage

If we assume the best in people, we can radically redesign our democracy and welfare states.

— Rutger Bregman

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think…

— John Shelby Spong