Quotes About Democracy

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

Most election analysts in the U.S. habitually confuse the sound of money talking with the voice of the people.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices and votes to push back.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.