Quotes About Democracy

Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.

I am the Doctor of Democracy. I am America's Truth Detector. And as the Doctor of Democracy, the deal you have with your doctor isn't changing. You get to keep your doctor. You get to keep your plan. You get to keep your station. Nothing's changing, and it really never was gonna change.

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered.

I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.