Quotes About Democracy

Donald Trump is an innocent child of God, and the democratically chosen president-elect of the United States. We must deeply bow before the first and deeply respect the second.

Politicians should inspire you to vote, they should appeal to people.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

We put a lot of money into Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall, trying to support it economically, trying to support democratic institutions.

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.

The very foundation of our democracy depends on the integrity of our elections.

I'm going do everything I can to make sure that we protect the integrity of our democracy.

Telling or encouraging people to vote for a party would be an insult to peoples' intellect.

We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.

As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same.

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.

Except two or three parties, most parties are dependent on one family. I believe that only parties where internal democracy is alive can achieve the ideals of democracy.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.