Quotes About Democracy

U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in Egypt.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

We're trying to democratise financial services, to ensure that management and movement of money is a right for all citizens, not the privilege of the affluent.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.

When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.

We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.

We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame - that you can be shamed.

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.

You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.