Quotes About Democracy

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

Vote for the candidate you believe would be the best candidate. That's the way it should work.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

Here's the problem, and here's what he's going to learn. I do not work for Donald Trump. Come the 20th, Donald Trump works for us. We're the boss.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.