Basis Quote by Naveen Patnaik

It can sound trite if you just say citizens need to be educated for democracy to work, but for him it wasn't trite. It…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants…

— Anonymous

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we…

— Indira Gandhi

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked…

— Amy Richards

Our system of government, our form of democracy, would not work for China, just like China's system would not work for us.

— Neil Bush

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

— Michael Novak

“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.”

— C.S. Lewis

Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy work the…

— Hallie Flanagan

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

— Louis L'Amour

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

— Lee Kuan Yew

This is how democracy should work - Democrats and Republicans in Congress working together with constituents and government agencies to craft legislation that will…

— Dean Phillips

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

— Walter Savage Landor