Quotes About Democracy

I have always been opposed to illegal changes of our Government or the overthrow of its institutions, whether by force or other illegal means. I have always believed in the democratic processes.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

What I appreciate about WP is that they have very clear processes for candidacy and membership. There is no fast track or parachuting.

These communities that are losing local news coverage are losing something deeper. They're losing a connection to American democracy. And those connections must be rebuilt. We need more of a bottom-up sense of what it means to produce news.

I would love to say to all Americans: 'Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You're going to watch one from each candidate, and then you're going to vote!'

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.

Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.

It's an exciting time in the world - democracy, in all its different shapes, is rolling around to new countries all the time. To have a chance to shape the democracy in my home country is an honor.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.

Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

We can respect our disagreements, but we must cherish our democracy.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

A lot of discussions and debates happen in our party. Isn't it good to have a democratically run party rather than a dynastic one? So obviously, discussions do happen, and they are for the good.