Quotes About Democracy

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.

The biggest thing that limits India's growth is democracy, but it is needed. We cannot overrule it.

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

Maduro has placed himself above the Constitution, but only the Venezuelan people can be above it.

Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the central tenets of our democracy - justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote - whether it's early because they can't take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

Social media has democratised platforms of expression so much - now a child can have a very loud voice.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.

Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.