Democracy Quotes (1607 Quotes)

but everybody had reservations. This is part of democracy. If the people do not approve it, we will draft another constitution.

We live in the greatest country in the world. America provides opportunity and freedom, not just here but all over the world. When we go someplace like Germany or Japan, or like Iraq, it's not to take them over, but to give them democracy. I feel for our young people now fighting in Iraq. I'm so proud of them and the job they're doing.

It is very difficult for a liberal democracy to deal with those that want to completely undermine the fabric on which liberal democracy is built. This is an absolutely new challenge for liberal democracies.

We have played hymns and songs that people know like The Star-Spangled Banner or Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sometimes people like to sing along.

Let me be frank, fighting the current Turkish government is an insult to the Kurdish people. This is a terrorist act. This is against the process of democracy in Turkey. This is only in the interest of the enemies of the Kurdish people

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

The Islamic republic is a tough target and there would be heavy consequences.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

It really gives the appearance that the judges have to answer to the politicians, and our democracy is set up very clearly to ensure the judiciary is independent from the executive branch.

Today, more than ever, sovereignty also needs democracy,

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

Having control over our resources and feeling that we are true masters of our domain would help us take full responsibility for future progress in the republic.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

The United States will continue to engage and support the Haitian people in pursuing our mutual interests, which include strengthening democracy, improving respect for human rights, eliminating poverty, stemming the flow of drugs through Haiti to the Unit

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

We haven't taken any decision yet, but there's a possibility that we may expand into other eastern European locations like Poland or the Czech Republic.

The Yugoslav army will ... give its unconditional support to the state institutions and their legally elected representatives, from the lowest officials to the president of the republic,

a deviant media movement that is trying to shape public opinion and turn it against Islam, the revolution and the Islamic Republic.

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

We had no choice. We did what any democracy would have done.

We have to admit that the majority of the public supports democracy, but democracy can't be monopolized by anybody.

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy 14 years ago, independently without pressure from the outside, ... This is our final choice, and we have no way back.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

For many parts of the world, the chasm that has to be crossed to get from where they were, whether it's a dictatorship, economic collapse, financial crisis or all of the above, to the other side, that is a working market economy and a functioning democracy, is extraordinarily difficult and requires help.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

If he thinks that it's so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go this war. They need to fight.

Not only is this the greatest achievement of Taiwan's democracy, it is also the pride of Taiwan,

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

If there ever was a day when controversy should be silenced and when all Italian citizens should show solidarity with those who have taken on the lofty task of defending the values of our democracy, then this is the day.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the ideology of human rights, the concept of democracy. It is necessary to show that nothing there leads in the direction of the real emancipation of humanity. It is necessary to reconstruct rights, in everyday life as in politics, of Truth and of the Good. Our ability to once again have real ideas and real projects depends on it.

The DPP will never shrink from, or compromise on, its positions to maintain national dignity and safeguard the people's interests, ... We're a sovereign, independent nation called the Republic of China. We are not a part of someone else. We're not a local government.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

This agreement is a victory for democracy, a victory for our EU citizens, and a victory for the fundamental rights.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

We are a democracy -- let's have checks and balances. Let us have a government of checks and balances.

We are concerned about the process. ... We don't think the process has been properly done. This is a very important country for Europe, ... but the quality of democracy has to be better.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

We cannot but welcome this effort of the Secretary General. It is something the President of the Republic himself has repeatedly requested from the Secretary General. Our effort is to avoid a hasty new process of negotiations,which would fail in no time, because that would be a catastrophe for Cyprus. That is why we are insisting on properly preparing the ground, creating the necessary conditions so that when a new process begins there would truly be realistic prospects to lead this process to an agreed solution and this is what we expect the UN Secretary General to do.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

We have given an example of real change in freedom and democracy. The new Europe will be something big in the world.

It is outrageous that police are harassing journalists for airing the sort of robust political debate essential to a democracy.