Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

GG Allin

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

Frank Herbert

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

George Hamilton

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

George H. W. Bush

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

Harold Bloom

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

Ha-Joon Chang

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Haile Selassie

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Gustav Heinemann

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

Howard Rheingold

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Howard Berman

Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.

Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

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

Ismail Haniyeh

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

Isaac Asimov

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Elon Musk

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Terry McAuliffe

If he were just another Republican with a book, he wouldn't sell any. But a Democrat out whacking Democrats sells books,

Gloria Steinem

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

H. L. Mencken

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

Michael Hirst

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.

Riordan Roett

I don't see how we can be opposed to that if it helps stabilize democratic systems.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

How this gets handled will determine much about our dream, of having democracy in an Islamic country, reinforcing one another.

Kate White

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

Hunter S. Thompson

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Daniel Fried

Our interests in security and our interests in democracy are indivisible,

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.