Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

Hillary Clinton

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Herbert Croly

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Marsha Blackburn

You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, when the Democrat leader is complaining about you on the Senate floor, you know you are doing something right.

Gore Vidal

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Gore Vidal

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Cassandra Clare

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

For the past five years Thailand has been a democracy only in name.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Joe Greene

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Hazel Blears

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

Robert Bourassa

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Karen Armstrong

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

Katharine Weymouth

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Mario Cuomo

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Mike Carey

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Mary Ritter Beard

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Mark McKinnon

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Pearl S. Buck

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.