Currents Quote by Patri Friedman

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

— Winston Churchill

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you…

— Peter L. Berger

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist…

— Alex Tabarrok

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without…

— Peter L. Berger

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

— Edward Abbey

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people and where…

— Murray Bookchin

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all.…

— Mortimer Adler

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern…

— Bryan Caplan

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is…

— George Soros