Quotes About Democracy

One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.

To get elected in Mexico today, you have to compete like any democracy, and you don't do that by being manipulated.

Aguilar Zinser played a crucial role in the struggle for democracy in Mexico. He was on the right side of that battle, however strident, passionate, and difficult he was.

There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that must be dealt with. To me, however, the disappearing middle class is even worse - bad for our economy and really bad for our democracy.

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.

As the lone democracy in the Middle East and America's most loyal ally, Israel deserves our attention and support.

Mr. Trump seems more at home with Middle Eastern autocrats than he does with European democrats.

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

I think it's important for people to believe their elections are on the up and up and they aren't being tampered with by anyone, and in this particular instance there's a large body of evidence that at a minimum Russia tried to tamper with our election.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

The minority must bow to the majority.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.