Quotes About Democracy

Our party's agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.

I went to college and majored in political science.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

Big money is ruining the political system.

The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social and political system in the world.

I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

Money is the root cause of why our political system is broken and why Americans are so frustrated.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

American politics is always an open competition.

Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

The considerations and aspirations of the people in the Lok Sabha polls is completely different from Assembly polls.

People should show up and vote at the polls, unless there's an extraordinary reason not to do so.