What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
