Quotes About Democracy

The Internet has democratized content, and the gatekeepers are no longer in control. That democracy is wonderful for entrepreneurs.

I've never done gender politics - I think our vote is too important to give away on any single issue.

When you have a general election result you don't like, you don't have another general election.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.

Restricting access to the ballot is not good for Georgia and it's certainly not good for Georgia business.

Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

We are not a country where a bunch of lieutenant colonels can get together and decide what the policy is of the United States.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Either you support the existing global elite, or you want real change and believe in nation-state democracy.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.

If the empire were to collapse, I should personally feel extremely sad. I absolutely do not believe that the personal rule of Napoleon III has been corrupting and oppressive for France-but quite the contrary, it is demonstrably necessary, conciliatory, progressive, and generally intelligent and democratic in the best sense of the word.

A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody else's equal, 'At bottom we are all herd and mob.

Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.