Quotes About Democracy

My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

There are not very many people who go out and vote in primaries. So to get elected in a particular district, you have to appeal to the five people who vote in the primary.

A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

At the end of the day, the law is the same for the Prime Minister or a common man of India.

The war has begun between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Modi's rule is autocracy and Rahul's soul is democracy.

Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.

We have parliamentary democracy. It is the prime minister who runs the show, who is the chief executive of the country. The president must have powers defined under the 1973 constitution, nothing more.

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister can be investigated like any other citizen.

The reality is that we only have one person whom the public sees as appropriate to be prime minister, and that's a shame. I think that if there were more, it would be better for everyone, including Netanyahu.

President or Prime Minister are not any individuals. They are an institutions in itself, and in democracy, we should ensure that the dignity of the institutions is not lowered.

It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law - even the prime minister - and no one, not even him, is above it.

No prime minister, no government can expect to be unanswerable or unchallenged.

Positioning one leader against another is not necessarily how our democracy functions. We do not directly elect the president or the prime minister. We choose parties based on their policies, and their efficacy depends on how well they implement their policies.

The people took to the streets in July 2018 to demand change. I heard you. That's why I chose an electoral rival - notary public Jean Henry Ceant - as my prime minister.

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Our democracy is as strong as we make it. Its founding principle is that we voice our opinions, and that we are willing to argue for what we believe in.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.