Democracy Quote by Timothy Snyder

“We believe that we have checks and balances, but have rarely faced a situation like the present: when the less popular of the two…

— Timothy Snyder

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” What I have said, however, is that they…

— Jordan Maxwell

“These two norms undergirded American democracy for most of the twentieth century. Leaders of the two major parties accepted one another as legitimate and…

— Steven Levitsky

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the…

— Arvind Kejriwal

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

— Thomas Jefferson

When a party is in opposition, it opposes. That's its job. But when it comes to power, it must govern. Easy rhetoric is over,…

— Charles Krauthammer

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed,…

— H. L. Mencken

“Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.”

— Russ Lippitt

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg

I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato…

— Jack Kevorkian

“Democracy rests on the principle of majority rule, yet it’s eternally coupled with the tolerance of dissenting views. However, ongoing competitive party politics has…

— Ramkrishna Guru