Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Robert Kagan

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

Ricardo Lagos

The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?

Rebecca MacKinnon

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Susan George

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Karen Armstrong

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Langston Hughes

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Lionel Jospin

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Lionel Jospin

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

Lech Walesa

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

Mustafa Akyol

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

Milos Forman

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Molly Ivins

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

Robert Reich

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Nick Lampson

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Ernest Mandel

Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this sounds, kind of uplifting and strange about watching democracy unfold.

Michael Hastings

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Abbie Hoffman