Quotes About Democracy

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

Free media is very essential for the democratic process and... development.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

But what we have is not democracy; it is demonocracy! We are ruled by demons.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch of political systems; but as a way of making art, actually, its not always that great, because it boils everything down.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

The Knesset has balances that will not allow it to pass legislation that would destroy democracy from within.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!

That would be the biggest shake-up Washington ever had, if big money didn't dictate who the candidates were and who got elected.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.