Quotes About Democracy

I do believe Hong Kong's 5 million eligible voters want the chance to elect their chief executive.

Who the voter chooses to vote for is up to him or her, I would only request all eligible voters to go out and vote.

Yes, I believe in parliamentary sovereignty, but irrespective of what the Electoral Commission decides, I am now even more convinced that there must be a people's vote on the Brexit deal, including an option to remain, or remain voters will have good reason to shout foul play.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

A true democracy starts by separating state and bad science.

We believe that when there is a democratic setup, we have a greater voice.

Shakespeare examines how democracy is built.

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

In Asia, democracy has been less advanced than elsewhere. And many of these countries haven't done too badly.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

At the end of the day, European politicians face the ballot box, as do all of us politicians.

Strong communities start at the ballot box - where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.

While we march in the streets making our voices heard, we must also march to the ballot box. That's where the real change happens.

Khap Panchayats are a group of people who come together. There is no bar on people to assemble in this country.

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

The fight for democracy is a long-term battle.

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.

We live in an 'eventocracy'. This is a new form of democracy where there is nothing greater than the event. Any policy announcement has so many events that people have begun to believe in the arrival of an avatar.

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible," the theologian and thinker Reinhold Niebuhr wrote in 1944, "but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.