Democracy Quote by Paul Romer

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our…

— William A. Niskanen

I'm banking on the fact that there are still good people in government who will prevent this. I've been a journalist for more than…

— Maria Ressa

A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and…

— William A. Niskanen

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

— Anonymous

The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

— Glenn Beck

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

— Dennis Kucinich

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

— Norman Mailer

Our democracy depends on a free and independent press. When politicians call reporting they don't like 'fake news,' they undermine trust in our civic…

— Tina Smith

Democracy depends on the legitimacy of the process for winning and exchanging power. Once lost, that legitimacy is difficult to recover.

— Jamelle Bouie

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

— Howard Zinn

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

— Steve Jobs

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same…

— Hillary Clinton

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

— Katharine Graham