Quotes About Democracy

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there are people in the United States today.

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Haiti is back on the path to democracy.

As one Edwardian expressed it, Britain enjoyed 'government of the people, for the people, by the best of the people.

It must be remembered that some groups will ignore any constitutional provision in their aim to establish themselves as new dictators. Therefore, a permanent role will exist for the population to apply political defiance and noncooperation against would-be dictators and to preserve democratic structures, rights, and procedures.

The common denominator in business marketing, political democracy, and religious reform is the transfer of power from service providers to service consumers.

Die Staatsform muss ein durchsichtiges Gewand sein, das sich dicht an den Leib des Volkes schmiegt.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

when the people have made up their mind as they are making it up now, they don't want a man—they only want a vote.

What is taxation? Taxation is what you pay to live in a civilized society- what you pay to have democracy and opportunity.

Empathy is the heart of democracy. Citizens care about other citizens. Freedom means freedom for everybody. That's government of, by, and for the People.

in France, a capitalist democracy concerned with égalité, in 1910, 70 percent of the wealth was reinvestment wealth, held by the very wealthy—not productive wealth, distributed over most of the population.

Runaway privatization of public resources. The private depends on the public, but conservatives are drastically cutting funds for public resources while successfully promoting privatization. They say that government doesn't work, and by cutting funds they can make government cease to work. And by cutting government resources for all, they can make democracy cease to work.

Because of the systemic effect of runaway personal and corporate wealth on our politics, both are systemically linked to the threat of global warming to the future of our planet, and to the fundamental split in our politics that is systemically threatening democracy in ways that are not obvious, and are therefore also unframed in public discourse.

Privatization and deregulation constitute the outsourcing of democratically elected government with a moral mission to corporations that have a profit-making mission. The effect is to turn democracy into corporatocracy. PROFIT

It is a fact that the private depends on the public—perhaps the most central fact of American democracy—and yet strict conservatives either can't see it or see it as a form of immorality so fundamental that it must be defeated at all costs.

Public resources allow for freedom in case after case, opening up all kinds of opportunities in life. It is the freedom that public resources afford that make them central to democracy. Saying it right—and saying it over and over—is advice that can be applied to issue after issue.

At issue is what freedom is supposed to mean, what democracy is supposed to mean, and what personhood is supposed to be.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.