Quotes About Democracy

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world sticks together. We have great trust that it will.

I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.

Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.