Famous Quotes & Sayings

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Ann Coulter

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Drew Carey

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Chuck Hagel

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

Chuck Hagel

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Annette Lu

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Coretta Scott King

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Andre Malraux

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Ambrose Bierce

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

Anthony Kennedy

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Alexis Tsipras

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

Alexis Tsipras

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Anatole France

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Andrew Vachss

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Jose Barroso

We haven't ground to a halt but we have to respect the pace of democracy in each country. We hope that they will come up with a solution for stability in Germany because stability in Germany means stability for Europe too.

Robert Bork

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Rick Mercer

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

Timothy Garton Ash

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

Thomas Sowell

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

Thomas Piketty

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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