Actually Quote by Robert A. Dahl

Joe Biden is not the first person in his family to have gone to college. But he has a lengthy history of claiming otherwise,…

— Mollie Hemingway

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

— Barack Obama

“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate,…

— Kenneth Minogue

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of…

— Jean Giraudoux

I think there is not enough understanding of the fact that in a democracy how you treat the security of the minority must be…

— Shabana Azmi

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts…

— Erich Fromm

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns.…

— George Hamilton

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor country, India's…

— Alex Tabarrok

“Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A…

— Nelson Mandela

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

— Mario Cuomo

“In early Greek society, particularly in Athens, democracy meant the equivalent of a permanent town meeting—all decisions of consequence were made in public assembly.…

— David H. Maister