Quotes About Democracy

We need to get a stable Afghanistan that can ensure the security of Americans, Europeans, and others on the one hand, but more fundamentally our own democratic rights and institutions.

Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' isn't just a song lyric; it's an expression of something fundamental about the human brain.

Our forefathers never envisioned that a handful of staff write a bill and you rush it through a committee without reading it and you rush it to the floor without reading it, and you pass it just because you're a Democrat and Democrats told you to do that.

In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

In our party, for the post of the prime minister or chief minister, there is no race, and nor does anyone stake their claim. Who will be the prime minister or chief minister, either our parliamentary board decides on this or the elected MLAs, in the case of chief minister, and MPs, in the case of the prime minister, select their leader.

Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.

The prospect of an Africa dominated by China means that progress in human rights and democracy in the region will stall and could be reversed.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

A country, people, and society are in a sorry state when the guardians of its democratic values and the rule of law are the officers of the armed forces who are forced to stand up to the mob and the politicians who incite it and kowtow to it.

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

In the mother of parliaments, it is not too much to ask that our politicians stand up for all our best interests.

I am very determined to stand up against any threat to the basic Democratic values and institutions of this country.

I will always stand up to protect fair access to the ballot box.

As we have done throughout history, we will remain a country that will speak up for what we believe in, support the international rules-based system and stand up for the free, and fair democratic values.

You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.

Since the founding of our nation, our democracy has been the beacon of hope and the standard by which other countries look to.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.