Democratic Quote by Wole Soyinka

They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I really think what's happening to the American political system is that it has been reduced to a system of self-perpetuation for the people…

— Rush Limbaugh

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and…

— Marcy Kaptur

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

— Herbert Spencer

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary…

— Abigail Adams

What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise…

— Jonathan Wood

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing…

— Anonymous

The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That…

— Zygmunt Bauman

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of…

— Al Gore

We've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance…

— Edward Snowden