Quotes About Democracy

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

The ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote marked a major turning point for America.

Turnout is good for the system.

In more stable political times, a low turnout in the E.U. elections was a luxury we could afford.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have been calling for: independence of the courts and press, a protected and democratic constitution, with different parties involved in a healthy and open debate.

If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want.

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

People have to decide do we want our country for ourselves with the people in charge or are we going to elect the the KGB and the House Republicans to decide this election [2016].

I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.