Quotes About Democracy

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

When politics is interesting, people go vote.