Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Hillary Clinton

Democracy is a system were ignorants choose a government, comunism is a system where ignorants govern themselves.

Daniel Delgado F

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Dick Gephardt

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

David Harsanyi

France is a pretty stable democracy, but incidents occur. And I was pleased to have police accompaniment.

James Douglas

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

Jason Katims

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Arianna Huffington

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

Henry Rollins

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Karl Liebknecht

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Paul Wellstone

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Rory Bremner

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

Robert Reich

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Vladimir Putin

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Penn Jillette

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

Chiang Kai-shek

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Beth Simone Noveck