Quotes About Democracy

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

As is the case with politicians, actors are chosen by people.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

I've always felt like in a democracy - this is how I was raised - that as a citizen, it's your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there's 120 and they've been inspired by the American exceptionalism.

Americans, as a rule, rarely compare themselves with other countries, so convinced are we that our system is superior, that our politicians are better, that our democracy is the fairest and most robust in the world.

You have these rap groups talking about 'Fight The Power' and that kind of stuff. What do they mean by that? Fight democracy? Fight the government, the most freest Superpower government in the world? What they need to fight is what's holding them back from getting educated and moving along in life.

To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.

What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

Democracies stand on several key pillars: Free and fair elections, human rights, the rule of law, and a free untrammeled media. Until 2016, an open media was seen as a resilient democratic pillar that supported the others.

I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat.

I've always been a huge supporter of the only democracy in the Middle East.

I am a passionate supporter of liberty, equality and popular sovereignty. These values have been championed by democratic giants for hundreds of years.

I have to give moral support to my supporters. If I'm not going to fight anymore, that might hurt the feelings of my supporters. They are fighting for democracy. They are fighting for the rule of law.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.