Quotes About Democracy

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart.

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

We want to strengthen democracy.

This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.

We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.

We need a revolution in consciousness to overturn the system we live in, to strengthen our democracy, to find courage and give hope to our children.

It's a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is... its rich diversity.

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

Under a democratic form of government, the people elect legislators and ministers to fulfil their policies. The role of the ministers is to give directions. The role of the bureaucracy is to implement those directions. If those who have to do the implementation are on strike, no policies can actually be implemented.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.