There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.
While anarchy can often turn a humdrum weekend into something unforgettable, eventually the mob must be kept from . And while it would be nice if that "something" was simple human decency, anybody who has witnessed the "50% Off Wedding Dress Sale" at...
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 m...
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.
If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.
I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
[...] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
