Quotes About Democracy

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

Mr. Obama's call to support genuine democracy has implications for the kinds of elections the international community promotes and endorses.

The international community doesn't cast a vote here. Gabonese people do, so I am accountable to them. They are the ones to give me my job or take it away. So this is what is really important to me.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

The Internet is by the people, for the people.

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly multiracial, democratic society that maybe can emerge as a model for the rest of the world.

If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.

We never get asked who we would vote for. It could be a general question to ask us in an interview, but it isn't.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews

We should not, therefore, be astonished when other nations view the United States as a "faltering democracy." How long would a basketball team that was ranked number one in the polls remain in that position if the student body, the school paper, and supporting faculty constantly pointed out its weaknesses?

Lincoln is properly remembered as a champion of democracy, but there was a good bit of Otto von Bismarck in him as well.

Suppose the elections are free and fair and those elected are racists, fascists, separatists", said the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke about Yugoslavia in 1990s. "that is the dilemma

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

The Left did not regard JK favorably, given his efforts to strengthen a free market economy with participation of foreign capital. Nor was he much admired by the academy that viewed with suspicion his flamboyant democratic attitude, which usually led him to reconcile conflicting forces. My father was a federal deputy at that time, a member of the coalition of parties that supported the government.

As the Harvard historian Kenneth Maxwell observed, "Democracy in Brazil has all too often been seen as the enemy of progress, the harbinger of anarchy, disunion and backwardness." And so, democracy itself was discarded.

Yo ya no sé dónde meterme en el planeta. Ruido y bribonería es lo que encuentro por todas partes. Y elecciones. Este planetoide del Sistema Solar se la pasa los 365 días del año ejerciendo lo que llaman la «democracia», eligiendo hampones.

My dad says you don't see tanks and guns on parade in America because democracy keeps the country together, not fear of the military.