Quotes About Democracy

Being clueless and out of touch is not a recipe for success at the midterm elections. But that only matters if you care about democracy.

The American people deserve to have access to as many qualified candidates as possible, not only the ones who can afford to buy name recognition or who already have it.

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.

I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Elections aren't about records, they're about plans and choices.

Venezuelans need free and fair presidential elections leading to democracy and economic recovery, not Maduro's expensive deals with another pariah state.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

I think the best term limit is to have public financing of campaigns and independent redistricting.

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

I knew that I could never win a referendum in Germany. We would have lost a referendum on the introduction of the euro. That's quite clear. I would have lost, and by seven to three.

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

The whole world is hopefully heading toward democracy.

Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing - not only because it would limit climate change, but also because it would be more technologically advanced, democratic, resilient, healthy, and economically dynamic.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.