Quotes About Democracy

Politics is a process, and there has to be a continual conversation between those who govern and those who give their consent to be governed.

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Democracy, as a governing system, is built on the foundational concept that when you cast your ballot, that ballot ensures your voice, will, and perspective will be accounted for in the direction of your city, state, or country.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

Citizens need to know how their countries are being run so that they can hold governments and big business to account.

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

A president's power is limited. We need to vote down the ballot as well, from your councilman all the way up to your governors and congressman.

The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

To say Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country, our democracy, and our future would be doing a grave disservice to the word 'disaster.'

I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and Western civilisation itself - was at grave risk.

The great thing about this country is that everyone has the chance to voice their own opinion.

The great thing about living in America is anybody can run for anything they want to run for. And I think that's a great thing.

That's the greatest thing about America, freedom that we have.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

I'm sure if there is a debate, Guantanamo Bay must be closed. And it should be closed, because it does not belong in a democracy.